Word: hostessing
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Another had to do with a hostess saying to a guest: "I won't offer you a cocktail, Mr. Brown, since you are the head of the Temperance League." "No," replied Mr. Brown, "I am president of the Anti-Vice League." "Oh," said the hostess. "Well, I knew there was something I shouldn't offer...
Besides his favorite artists Crowninshield is ready to pay fond tribute to the late great Architect Stanford White, to the old Waldorf, to the full-rigged hostess of the 1900s, Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish. He is an accomplished toastmaster, cotillon leader, bon vivant who neither drinks nor smokes, first-nighter, balletomane, golfer, bridge player, cat enthusiast, and clubman (Union, Knickerbocker). He once hired Dorothy Parker to write for him on the strength of one line she produced in an advertising agency ("Brevity is the soul of lingerie...
...Molotov is better known as Paulina Zhemchuzhina (zhemchug means pearl). She is a slim, handsome woman, with a clear olive skin and discreet makeup. Moscow's prewar foreign community knew her as a charming and lavish hostess, a lover of French literature, a well-dressed woman...
When the students complain about such conditions to the hostess, she is apt to reply, "Those are my orders," according to the committee
...effort to boost its membership the Hasty Pudding Officers Club will hold another informal open house at 8 o'clock tomorrow night, Mrs. Helen L. Bowditch hostess and manager of the recently opened center, announced yesterday...