Word: hostessing
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Maker of a gracious home and gracious hostess to every nation; creator of good will by willing the good of all people...
Many Hangovers. Like any great human issue, it offers no easy answers. Factors beyond man's personal control (the population explosion, the high cost of privacy, his wife's energetic counter-effort to become the community's most beloved hostess ) have gradually propelled him into closer and closer contact with an ever-expanding collection of neighbors, relatives, club members, office workers, lodge brothers, poker players, business clients, and fellow commuters...
Beaverbrook's most memorable anecdote concerns a crucial dinner party at which Chamberlain, "the most important and impressive guest," was expounding on Ireland. "Only one detail was going wrong," writes Beaverbrook. "The butler was obviously tight." Furiously, their hostess scribbled a note and handed it to the butler, who put it "on a big and beautiful salver and, walking unsteadily to Austen Chamberlain, with a deep bow presented the message." It read: "You are drunk-leave the room at once...
...didn't want to leave anything out. Like the Hunt Ball. You know the hostess looks like a horse and everyone's hell's boring except me. Being a deb was easy because my daddy's a noble lord. Did I mention that? And I did the beatniks too -in Chelsea. Beatniks grunt and look sick and don't wash and scratch a lot, I can tell you, which is killingly funny or something. And what else. Oh yes. A trip to Paris, where I lived with a down-and-out marquis. Mummy says...
About to set out on a tour of the U.S., Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg, 67, and her son, Prince Jean, 42, arrived on the White House lawn by Marine helicopter. Sister-in-Law Eunice Shriver stood in for Jackie Kennedy as hostess in the outdoor greeting ceremony. The First Lady, advised by her doctor to stay inside when she can, peered out from an upstairs window with Caroline...