Word: hostessing
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...held in deepest secrecy. The Yugoslav press has still made no official announcement of it, but invitations to the diplomatic reception for Eden last week were issued in the names of "Marshal Josip Broz Tito and Mme. Jovanka Broz." At the reception itself, Major Jovanka played the part of hostess with poise and charm. One of the 400 guests present complimented her with the remark: "You are attracting more attention even than Mr. Eden." "No," gasped Yugoslavia's new first lady. "How can that...
...small and irregular. (She later claimed she lost about $35 on every decorating job she did.) But in a succession of shabby East Side New York apartments, generally furnished with a few gilt chairs and remnants of the splendors of 19A Edith Grove, she once again became a famous hostess. By 1929, when she published Music at Midnight, a lively memoir of her European triumphs, Muriel's parties were a focus for visiting artistic lions and earnest contributors to the little magazines. Muriel helped to keep excitement alive by outrageous remarks and outrageous hats...
Died. Muriel Draper, 65, longtime hostess to a never-ending series of causes, from Gurdjieffism to Communist frontery, mother of Dancer Paul Draper and sister-in-law of Monologuist Ruth Draper; after long illness; in Manhattan (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...would-be Hitler (Claus Clausen) is a pianist-entertainer in a postwar Munich nightclub where Pier Angeli is employed as a hostess. When a U.S. Army Air Force captain (Gene Kelly) becomes romantically involved with Pier, he soon finds that he is also deeply involved in a political underground movement...
Scarlet Angel (Universal-International) is the name of a gaudy post-Civil War saloon in New Orleans, "where the whisky is watered and the gambling is as crooked as the gals." Here, sultry Roxy (Yvonne de Carlo) plies her trade as hostess, separating the customers from their cash, calling everybody "dearie," and enthusiastically participating in all the barroom brawls...