Word: hostessing
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After that night, Mrs. St. George stopped worrying. A first-string hostess of Tuxedo, a first cousin of Franklin Roosevelt, a member of the board of governors of the Women's National Republican Club, vice president of the St. George Coal Co. and an expert rider, she was politically irresistible. What's more, Ham Fish was 100% for her, and down in the bottom of its heart, the 29th District still liked...
Miss Holman will sing tunes from her new musical, currently playing at the Cambridge Summer Theater; and Professor Matthiessen will discuss the PAC's tentative plans for the fall elections. Members of the event's hostess corps yesterday extended invitations through the CRIMSON to all University men interested in meeting the guests...
...extraordinary difference in his life. When he decided to give a reception for Dona Amelia de Orleans e Braganga, mother of Don Duarte Nufio, the pretender to Portugal's throne, his advisers suggested that the Countess de la Seca, a widow with two young children, should act as hostess. When the Countess took over the flower arrangement for the party, Salazar was so impressed by her taste that he wrote her a short note. She replied with a long letter and Salazar asked permission to call on her. The Countess received him at tea. Since then she has been...
...title refers, in irony, to a select circle of the prewar Harvard faculty, to which the heroine is hostess; the novel exhibits the breakdown of 1) the principle of selection, 2) the circle, and 3) the hostess. Miss Howe (sister of radio commentator Quincy Howe, daughter of Mark De Wolfe Howe) works a modest claim in territory on which J. P. Marquand had an option. Her ear is attentive, though incapable of his flights of parody; her knowledge of Boston, Cambridge and Harvard politics is sharp and sometimes subtle; her style is firm, though it would have been firmer...
...faltering skits than funny ones. Yet the show as a whole is as well-balanced as it is bright. It has fresh ideas, peppy dancing, agreeable tunes, clever lyrics. And it has likable performers, notably Comic Jules Munshin and pretty Comedienne Betty Garrett (Laffing Room Only). As a canteen hostess, half-crippled and half-crazy from trying to conga, rumba and samba, Actress Garrett brings down the house...