Word: hostessing
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...henceforth stay round the clock at the bedside of any patient near death. The youngsters may keep such items as lockets and crosses, and their own clothes. Parents may be present before and after all operations, and there will be waiting rooms. Dr. Leclainche will even try a hostess service, modeled on the job of an airplane stewardess, to ease the ordeal of parents and children...
Died. Sir Charles Mendl, 86, Britain's longtime (1926-40) Paris diplomatic press attache who was known as a mystery-cloaked, behind-the-scenes diplomat; after long illness; in Paris. After the death of his U.S.-born hostess-interior decorator wife, Elsie de Wolfe Mendl, who lorded it over the international smart set for decades by splashing lavish parties in Paris, Beverly Hills and Versailles, he married (at 79) a 37-year-old violinist, who died a year...
...when at a party he met pious, vixen-toothed Actress Nita ("Nixie") Naldi, who screamed forthwith: "You Bolshevik! You heathen! . . . You worm! You Pagan! You anti-Christ!" Ibanez shrilled back so excitedly that his -'upper plate fell out of his mouth into Nixie's bosom." Whereupon the hostess, "who had hoped for a stimulating evening, but not this stimulating, quickly reached down into Nixie, pulled out the teeth, rinsed them in the punch bowl, and pushed them back into [Ibánez'] mouth." Nixie got the part...
Molly Palm, who was the head hostess at Cronin's restaurant until six months ago, died last Saturday at her home in Torrington, Conn. She had been a hostess at Cronin's for 12 years before being stricken with a shock last spring...
Molly, whose actual name was Mrs. Mary L. MacCormack, was well known by many University students as the gracious Hostess of Jim's Place. She leaves her husband, Mr. MacCormack, and a son, Einar Palm '43, who is an architect in Torrington...