Word: hostessing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Molotov is better known as Paulina Zhemchuzhina (zhemchug means pearl). She is a slim, handsome woman, with a clear olive skin and discreet makeup. Moscow's prewar foreign community knew her as a charming and lavish hostess, a lover of French literature, a well-dressed woman...
When the students complain about such conditions to the hostess, she is apt to reply, "Those are my orders," according to the committee
...effort to boost its membership the Hasty Pudding Officers Club will hold another informal open house at 8 o'clock tomorrow night, Mrs. Helen L. Bowditch hostess and manager of the recently opened center, announced yesterday...
Dripping real and fake jewelry, the vivacious, smartly gowned Countess endeared herself to Detroit's uppercrust as lecturer and hostess (she served sherry with a dash of British accent). She kept: 1) a bottle of invisible ink in her apartment kitchen, 2) a black-and-green notebook containing the names of 200 "in fluential" people living in the U.S. For two years - since U.S. agents first called on her for a long, heart-to-heart talk -the Countess has played a dangerous double game: she has bossed the spy ring with one hand, tipped...
...Emma ("Mamma") Leonhardt, a motherly, sixtyish boardinghouse keeper, played hostess at cozy little German "coffee klatches" for the entire group. The name and address of Mamma Leonhardt were found on one of the Nazi saboteurs who landed last June on Long Island, was later executed...