Word: hostessing
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...with "so many hours and so much money" in Bricktop's. From 1924 to 1939, until war drove her home to the U.S. for a while, Bricktop (real name: Ada Smith du Congé), a West Virginia-born Negro woman with a mop of rusty orange hair, played hostess to a whole generation of footloose Americans in her Montmartre nightclub...
...pressures, and at the comparatively low altitudes (18,000 to 20,000 ft.) now flown by airliners, a passenger is unlikely to be captured by a rush of air to a broken window. There has been one such accident, but it did not turn out too badly. An airline hostess was sucked to a window, but her hips were wide enough to stick in the frame and save her from being popped like a cork into the empty air.* The pressure difference (only 2½ lbs. per sq. in.) was not great enough to extrude her completely. ("Still," said...
...distributors cannot give a satisfactory explanation,"hostess Rose Gleason predicted, "The University will take its business elsewhere...
...bolster the people's morale in the face of an expected Communist offensive. Bao Dai arrived in his C-45, which also carried a Scotty named Bubi, two bottles of King George Scotch, two guitars, three tennis rackets, 16 pieces of miscellaneous baggage and a cute, redheaded airline hostess named Esther. Wearing his inevitable dark glasses and a natty grey flannel suit, Bao Dai drove along roads lined with French Tommy-gunners facing the long grass where Communist snipers might be hiding...
Ring Round the Moon has a measure of wit along with its grace, and a tango scene that deigns to be altogether hilarious. In a generally good production, Lucile Watson is amusing as the ball's aristocratic wheelchaired hostess, Denholm Elliott smooth and agile as both twin brothers, and Oscar Karlweis suavely despondent as an unwilling millionaire. But Ring Round the Moon seems frequently garrulous and increasingly tenuous and a little too complacently impromptu. The whole effect is rather like finding a filmy handkerchief with a ravishing scent and searching in vain for its owner...