Word: hostesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Churchill brought along his daughter, Mrs. Vic Oliver (full title: Section Officer Sarah Oliver, WAAF), as aide-de-camp and hostess. Trim in her blue uniform, she stunned a group of important British naval officers (who had not recognized her) by saying crisply: "You can't have any drinks before noon...
...well-liked, generous, hostess-hounded bachelor who wants some day to marry, Hart has probably made more than $1,000,000 in show business. He is chary of discussing finances. Says he: "I have so many relatives. . . . Why, my aunt has only to read a good review in the Times and there's another operation...
About the only objections to the original sequences is the treatment of the "Stage Door Canteen" number, in which a broken-hearted soldier tries to act lovingly toward his girl-to-be-he-hopes-except-for-the-hostess. Ordinarily we would be the last to complain about a little romance, but when we realize that the girl in question is really another soldier and maybe even the first guy is top sarge, "it looks sort of pointless--or worse...
Another had to do with a hostess saying to a guest: "I won't offer you a cocktail, Mr. Brown, since you are the head of the Temperance League." "No," replied Mr. Brown, "I am president of the Anti-Vice League." "Oh," said the hostess. "Well, I knew there was something I shouldn't offer...
Besides his favorite artists Crowninshield is ready to pay fond tribute to the late great Architect Stanford White, to the old Waldorf, to the full-rigged hostess of the 1900s, Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish. He is an accomplished toastmaster, cotillon leader, bon vivant who neither drinks nor smokes, first-nighter, balletomane, golfer, bridge player, cat enthusiast, and clubman (Union, Knickerbocker). He once hired Dorothy Parker to write for him on the strength of one line she produced in an advertising agency ("Brevity is the soul of lingerie...