Word: hostessing
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Like a poised and polished hostess trying to overlook a glaring social error, Buckingham Palace last week sought to restore glamour to Princess Margaret's wedding. Glossing over the uproar caused by the abrupt switch in the best man for Fiancé Antony Armstrong-Jones, the government revealed lavish decoration plans for the wedding day. In honor of Princess Margaret Rose's second name, nearly a million fresh roses are to be strung on 60-ft. arches between the palace and Clarence House, the London home of the princess. From tall masts in Parliament Square will dangle metal...
...Conspicuous. In fact, the more closely palace officials looked at Tony's friends and family, the more uneasy they became at the burgeoning of eccentricities. Tony has two stepmothers, one an actress presently married to an Italian lawyer named Giuseppe Lopez, the other a former airline hostess. (His mother, sister of Stage Designer Oliver Messel, is now married to the Earl of Rosse.) Also distressing is the zest with which foreign newspapers are exploring Tony's lively past. Last week the Paris France-Dimanche reported that Tony is expected to get rid of such old friends...
...enthusiastic about girls."Dear old Carnal Desire," he rhapsodizes. Moreover, he philanders resourcefully; once when he awakened of a morning not quite sure of his hostess, he headed slyly for the medicine cabinet to reacquaint himself. "Miss Betty Hyams, twice a day after meals,'' said the label on one bottle. "I was saved. Betty." The plot, however, is mostly concerned with another girl-healthy enough not to require a medicine cabinet-who comes to share Julian's rustic idyl for a while. When he finds her clasped by a lustful vegetarian, he takes...
...commission brushed both arguments aside. It found that Capital's chief hostess, who interviewed Patricia, had marked her application "B+," which means "accepted for future employment." "The chief hostess," found the commission, "changed it to 'see again' at the direction of the director of passenger service." The commission's conclusion: "We entertain no doubt that Miss Banks would have been reinterviewed and employed, had she been white." Since Capital does a "substantial amount of its business in the State of New York." and conducts some 22 pre-employment procedures there, the commission argued that...
Green never learned to drive a car, still walks more than a mile to and from work when the weather is good. One of Washington's busiest partygoers, he keeps meticulous track of his engagements in a black notebook. Once, a hostess saw him leafing through the book, asked fondly: "Are you checking to find out where you go next?" Replied Green: "I'm checking to see where...