Word: hostesses
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Christmas invariably brought a handsome, if misdirected, selection of cards. All this more than made up for the blank look on the faces of host and hostess when Frank and his wife arrived at parties in response to invitations addressed tc Senhor and Senhora White...
...that he finds it almost impossible to finish 18 holes of golf in a day because he keeps asking others to pass him. He wears a kimono at home and prefers to sleep on a straw mat on the floor. To cook for him and act as his official hostess (he is a widower), the new ambassador brought along his 20-year-old daughter Tomiko, a shy, pretty girl who speaks little English, prefers Western dress. Tomiko is due for some surprises: she prepared herself for her trip to the U.S. by plowing determinedly through works of Faulkner, Dos Passos...
...been a successful hostess in Paris by acting, in many ways, just about as she did in the late 19203, when the Eisenhower apartment on the Rue d'Auteuil-occupied while Ike served with the American Battle Monuments Commission -was known as "Club Eisenhower" to their friends, and nearby Mirabeau Bridge as "Pont Mamie...
...Conference is held to discuss "common problems," and a different school is hostess each year...
...Roosevelt) who have a talent for public life, for living naturally and even comfortably in the public gaze, like a goldfish in its bowl, and for instinctively evading female critics, enraged politicos and other predators with little more than a lazy movement of the fins. Like a good dinner hostess, she is able to dart into controversial subjects (birth control, Senator Joe McCarthy, racial segregation) and out again, getting her strong opinions across in a deceptively mild way. She has a gift for the unquotable sentence: those who attempt to pin her down on the evidence of her words find...