Word: hostessing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...becomes so hopelessly entangled that nobody really tries to get the straight of it. Mr. Gable, who can glide through this kind of thing without wiggling an ear, is devilish good in his sure-fire part; so are Frank Morgan (retired judge and practicing drunkard) and Claire Trevor (dancehall hostess). A super Western salted with equal dashes of shooting and sex, Honky Tank will burn no tongues, gag few gullets...
Later, at a soiree, she discovers that her shelter mate is the guest of honor. Their hostess (Billie Burke) is a giddy lady who believes that "into the life of every English girl a little American should fall." Not in sympathy with that credo, Miss Carroll scampers home, gets into bed, puts on her gas mask and ponders whether the right man could see through its ugliness into her soul. As if to find out, she crawls on all fours to a wall mirror and barks at herself...
...Greet your hostess and say: "How do you do, oh, isn't that cute?"-thus calling attention to some bit of novelty jewelry she is certain to be wearing. If she is clad in a bathing suit, say: "How do you do, aren't you lovely?" Plain "How do you do?" won't do. It's considered rude...
...thank your hostess next day for the good time you had at her party...
...money began rolling in, Organizer Dorothy launched a series of "galloping tea parties,'' at which Dorothies drank, paid, went forth chain-letter fashion to brew more tea for more Dorothies. To date, the Provinces have been Blitz-teaed some 20,000 times, always with a Dorothy as hostess, though often with other-named guests...