Word: hostessing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extraordinary difference in his life. When he decided to give a reception for Dona Amelia de Orleans e Braganga, mother of Don Duarte Nufio, the pretender to Portugal's throne, his advisers suggested that the Countess de la Seca, a widow with two young children, should act as hostess. When the Countess took over the flower arrangement for the party, Salazar was so impressed by her taste that he wrote her a short note. She replied with a long letter and Salazar asked permission to call on her. The Countess received him at tea. Since then she has been...
...title refers, in irony, to a select circle of the prewar Harvard faculty, to which the heroine is hostess; the novel exhibits the breakdown of 1) the principle of selection, 2) the circle, and 3) the hostess. Miss Howe (sister of radio commentator Quincy Howe, daughter of Mark De Wolfe Howe) works a modest claim in territory on which J. P. Marquand had an option. Her ear is attentive, though incapable of his flights of parody; her knowledge of Boston, Cambridge and Harvard politics is sharp and sometimes subtle; her style is firm, though it would have been firmer...
...faltering skits than funny ones. Yet the show as a whole is as well-balanced as it is bright. It has fresh ideas, peppy dancing, agreeable tunes, clever lyrics. And it has likable performers, notably Comic Jules Munshin and pretty Comedienne Betty Garrett (Laffing Room Only). As a canteen hostess, half-crippled and half-crazy from trying to conga, rumba and samba, Actress Garrett brings down the house...
...week's end, after tramping through the Capitol, taking a little trip on the presidential yacht Williamsburg, and turning down an invitation to a reception by the Missouri Society, the ladies and their hostess were ready to call it a mutually satisfying experience.* The ladies had reminded Bess Truman of Independence. For months to come, they would remind Independence of Bess Truman. They had played bridge just once...
...hostess' kitchen, Clem scribbled notes as Mrs. Franc L. McCluer expertly handled a 25-lb. Callaway County ham. Out at the Dick Scruggs farm, where it came from, Kitty Scruggs told her: "Between you and me and the gatepost, this sugar-cured Callaway the folks so cherish originally came from Boone County. The recipe came to Callaway when I came as Dick's bride." Mrs. Roy Anthony, in charge of the angel food cakes, scoffed: "Worried? Why, no. I've never had a failure, so why would I now, when it's for Mr. Churchill?" Grocer...