Word: hostessing
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...stainless-steel, heated food wagon, complete with dish racks and thermos containers, which will enable a hostess to serve a piping hot meal without rising from her seat...
...room, would include a refrigerator in the radio cabinet, an oven and broiler in a desk drawer. Enlarging on this idea in Woman's Home Companion, Dorothy Rosenman, chairman of the National Committee on Housing, observed; "Nonchalance will have reached the peak when, during a tea party, the hostess casually reaches into the desk drawer to baste a chicken...
...late No. i U.S. clubman, posthumously appeared by proxy in Manhattan's Surrogate Court. The claim of $231,750, brought against his estate after his death in 1942 by Muriel Paterson, onetime showgirl, who charged that Vanderbilt had guaranteed her $750 a month for life for acting as hostess on his yacht and for "special services" rendered, was finally settled in full...
...love with Harriet's twinkling-eyed dignity, and after the war courted and married her. As a Columbus lawyer's wife Harriet Day Bricker painted, played the piano, gardened, composed song lyrics, raised son Jackie, 13, quietly helped her husband become Governor of Ohio. An efficient, handsome hostess, Mrs. Bricker will make no soapbox speeches in her husband's coming campaign for the Vice-Presidency, will discuss no controversial issues. But she reserves the right to have strong personal convictions...
...most notable member of the official family is Spaatz's WAC aide, Captain Sally Bagby, a tall, slim brunette from New Haven, Mo., who functions as the General's confidential secretary, personal batwoman, mess hostess, badminton opponent ("I'm the only one he can beat"), wardrobe checker-upper and last line of defense against bores and time-wasters...