Word: hostessing
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Young Blake (Freddie Bartholomew), wharf-rat nephew of a Yarmouth ginshop hostess, and young Nelson (Douglas Scott) swear to take any dare proposed by the other. When they overhear a captain plotting to scuttle his ship after removing its cargo of gold, they agree to run away from home together to carry the news to Lloyd's. Nelson breaks the pact to go to sea as a midshipman on his uncle's man-o'-war. Blake goes alone to London, where a chimney sweep (D'Arcy Corrigan) directs him to Lloyd's coffee house...
...party were shown into an ordinary box. Reason: although Mrs. Simpson was seated unobtrusively in the shadowed rear of the Royal Box, she was none the less occupying it, in the absence of King Edward in South Wales. With Mrs. Simpson was a large party of whom the ostensible hostess was Maude Alice ("Emerald") Lady Cunard. As usual, stately Lady Cunard was in full sail with her famed cargo of rubies. Mrs. Simpson, who was recently provided with a $750,000 emerald and diamond necklace (TIME, Oct. 12), wore last week only a new set of diamonds. Next morning London...
...Journalist Hutchins Hapgood, who brought Lincoln Steffens, who brought some young college graduates: John Reed, Walter Lippmann, Robert Edmond Jones, Lee Simonson. They were followed by Emma Goldman, "Big Bill" Haywood, Alexander Berkman, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Max Eastman, Frances Perkins, Margaret Sanger, Mary Heaton Vorse, many others. The impressionable hostess, vibrating to labor leaders, radical journalists, jailbirds, futurist artists and philosophical anarchists as sensitively as she had responded to Florentine decadents, soon found her new companions too headstrong for her. She sponsored a modern art show and demonstrations of the I. W. W., entertained one of the dynamiters...
...heart on, Barney Glasgow has to do more than spur his gang on to a record cutting. He has to marry the boss's unappealing daughter. For this high hurdle in ambition's path he gets up courage by a brief affair with a dance-hall hostess (Frances Farmer), not the least of whose charms is a convenient knack of converting beer trays into lethal missiles in a barroom brawl. When Glasgow goes off to marry his heiress, the eccentric Swede foreman (Walter Brennan) who has been his best friend stays on to marry the dance-hall girl...
...first piece of the first batch listed above gives an acute analysis of the ways and woes of a charming hostess who endeavors to entertain some dozen heterogeneous people at once, and wins by being vague. The next is a grim one: a diagnostic study of a diagnostic man. It shows what happens when a psychiatrist has a love affair. The third snaps itself abruptly to the vaudeville stage and gives us Noel asking his lovely, amazingly gifted partner, Gertrude Lawrence, "Who was that woman I saw you with last night?" The versatility of the pair is so great that...