Word: hostessing
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Actually, President Clapp was quite ready to wrestle with the money problem ("Of course, I didn't like correcting papers either"). But last week, there were too many other things to think about. For one, there was the big tea for parents-the first time she had been hostess to so many people. She had already found out one thing about the job of an unmarried (and so far unattached) woman executive: "I am not only the president, but the president's wife as well...
...Playing hostess to Mrs. Cole and the HSID will prevent Miss Cam from attending the Idler Club tea this afternoon...
Back at his study at 2:30, Franks may find an official from one of his 20-odd consular offices waiting to report. The procession continues through the afternoon. As his day's work ends, Lady Franks may come in with a hostess problem: Would champagne for the visiting British bishops be too ostentatious? Sir Oliver thinks...
...Hostess No. 1 was Mrs. Elizabeth LaPointe, a 56-year-old grandmother and telephone operator. The man who came to dinner sampled her fruit compote, eggs soaked in pickled beet juice, Norwegian meat sticks, Norwegian coffee, snowball cookies and cinnamon rolls. Only one course was a casualty; Mrs. LaPointe had let the lemon fluff collapse. Coates pronounced the LaPointe dinner "delicious...
...prefers to remain secluded in a small side room. Last week Luxembourg, whose national motto is Mir welle bleiwe wat mir sin (We want to stay as we are), suspected that its social life, at least, would not long bleiwe as it was. For Mrs. Perle Mesta, famed Washington hostess and new U.S. minister to the Grand-Duchy, arrived with plump aplomb, and her ideas of a good party were known to differ from those held in Luxembourg...