Word: hostessing
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...Airline Hostess. Nehru has no private plane. On the seven-hour regular flight from New Delhi to Madras he dozed a little and read snatches from a novel. But most of the time he walked the airplane's aisle, performing the duties of an airline hostess-adjusting ventilating valves, checking on safety belts, arranging women's wraps and generally making the passengers more comfortable...
...York Times Radio Editor Jack Gould described the life of the television set owner: "He opens his home to the world . . . The video hostess soon finds that her cocktail shaker ... is no better than a thimble . . . The family's evening is not tainted with such an archaic pursuit as ... conversation. A mute tranquillity has overtaken the American home." ¶Two Congressmen introduced a bill proposing 1) that the U.S. build a $2,500,000 house for its Vice President, and 2) pending construction of the new mansion, house him in dignified old Blair House, now used to accommodate foreign...
Frank Jay Gould, youngest son of the late Railroader Jay and oldest living dandy of American expatriates, was having a little trouble at 70 with his wartime hostess on the Riviera. She had hidden him for eight months while the Gestapo sniffed about, declared Mme. Anne Vilbert de Sairigné, and in gratitude her wealthy house guest had written her a handsome check. But when she tried to cash it she found he had stopped payment. So last week she sued for the amount: $400,000. Expatriate Frank avoided the press. A friend spoke for him, though not much...
Died. Maud Alice ("Emerald"), Lady Cunard, seventyish, famed Chicago-born hostess of Edwardian England's literary & artistic set, and later a boon companion of Edward VIII and Wally Simpson; of pleurisy and cancer; in London. A sometime intimate friend of Novelist George Moore and Symphony Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, Emerald married Steamship Heir Sir Bache Edward Cunard in 1895, came to view with imperturbability the diatribes of her ultra-radical daughter Nancy...
...guest-home has six large bedrooms with adjoining baths, as well as a reception room and a small light-housekeeping suite for the guest-house hostess. No meals will be served in the House itself, but its distinguished occupants will have the use of the adjacent Faculty Club...