Word: hostessing
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...proves he hasn't a flat head") and Stanley combs which "never go to the dentist, because their teeth stay in." In 45 minutes, she showed 50 different items, took in $43 in orders-more than enough to earn a set of table knives for her hostess, and a commission of about $14 for herself...
Married. Henry J. Kaiser Jr., 32, assistant to his famed industrialist father; and onetime airlines hostess Barbara Preininger, 26; he for the second time, she for the first; in Inglewood, Calif...
...Duchess of Windsor divulged to the readers of Vogue that the life of a brilliant international hostess is strewn with heartaches and pitfalls. "Any dinner of more than 16 people," wrote the Duchess, "I consider enormous. More than eight persons means no souffle-always a melancholy omission . . . Anybody who entertains a lot runs the risk of falling into a rut... The hostess who relies upon memory alone may find herself repeating to friends precisely the same dinner, down to the entremets, that she provided six months before. It is a great pity that Mr. Thomas Watson's efficient International...
Seven U.S. Senators on a European fact-finding tour reached Luxembourg to find U.S. Minister Perle Mesta as good a hostess as ever. Mrs. Mesta greeted Oklahoma's Senator Elmer Thomas with a kiss, then whisked him and his colleagues through a giddy two-day whirl culminating in a 55 guest dinner party. To round out the welcome, an overexuberant Luxembourg band serenaded the Senators (four of them from the South) with a lusty performance of Marching through Georgia...
...James Chesnut was 38 when the Civil War began. Highbred and lively, daughter of a governor of South Carolina and wife of a Confederate Senator, she was the sort of Charleston hostess to whom Jefferson Davis, Stephen Mallory, Alexander Stephens, Robert Toombs and other pillars of the Confederacy told state secrets...