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Word: hostessing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wellesley College has a neat little course for men lucky enough to have a hostess to buy them in. The fairways and greens are in top condition, the holes are interesting--wooded and rolling--and there is never a crowd...

Author: By Paul Sack, | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 5/6/1947 | See Source »

Died. Evalyn Walsh McLean, 60, Washington's most famed and lavish hostess, owner of the reputedly unlucky 44¼-carat Hope Diamond (estimated value: anything up to $2 million) ; of pneumonia; in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 5, 1947 | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

...read with great interest your report of Colonel McCormick's Hollywood visit [TIME, March 31]. I was also very surprised at the caption under the picture: "Hostess Hopper, Guest McCormick, Admirer Sinatra." Hasn't Mr. Sinatra always claimed to be a great liberal? It seems to me that being a liberal and being an admirer of Colonel McCormick are incongruous. Of course, it might be that Miss Hopper's power of the press is too strong for Mr. Sinatra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 21, 1947 | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

Like an efficient hostess, Colombia is preparing well ahead of time for the ninth Pan American Conference, scheduled tentatively for December. A primary move has been to rid Bogotá's streets of beggars, which last week were strangely free of the lame and the halt-result of a preconference roundup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Bogota Beggars | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...with Designer Loewy, it will be only 18 inches higher than present buses and no longer. But the tricky new seat arrangement will permit 13 more passengers to be carried, 50 v. 37 in present buses. It also has a washroom, toilet, water cooler, may even carry a hostess. The driver sits in a special clearview compartment between the two decks. It will start on its shakedown cruises this summer. If the trial runs suit Caesar, the bus may go into production next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: New Day for the Hound | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

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