Word: hostessing
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...Harvard and have seen scads of handsome officers in square and yard. After hearing radio program on Monday entitled "Blind Date," I thought perhaps it would be fun to do it, too. If you know of four tall, single, willing and agreeable fellows, I should be delighted to play hostess to them either January 14th or 15th, whichever is more convenient for them...
...Drama. Some 100 flutists and their friends wandered about the auditorium, filling the air with a high-pitched and rarefied din. On a platform at a piano, Mrs. John Wummer, wife of the New York Philharmonic's first flutist, served accompaniments to those who wanted them, as a hostess might serve canapés. Near the door stood one of the club's nonflutist members, one Edwin Rosenblum of Brooklyn, who loathes the flute but cannot resist the morbid spectacle of an army of flutists pilliwinking away at once...
Churchill brought along his daughter, Mrs. Vic Oliver (full title: Section Officer Sarah Oliver, WAAF), as aide-de-camp and hostess. Trim in her blue uniform, she stunned a group of important British naval officers (who had not recognized her) by saying crisply: "You can't have any drinks before noon...
...well-liked, generous, hostess-hounded bachelor who wants some day to marry, Hart has probably made more than $1,000,000 in show business. He is chary of discussing finances. Says he: "I have so many relatives. . . . Why, my aunt has only to read a good review in the Times and there's another operation...
About the only objections to the original sequences is the treatment of the "Stage Door Canteen" number, in which a broken-hearted soldier tries to act lovingly toward his girl-to-be-he-hopes-except-for-the-hostess. Ordinarily we would be the last to complain about a little romance, but when we realize that the girl in question is really another soldier and maybe even the first guy is top sarge, "it looks sort of pointless--or worse...