Word: hostessing
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...dinner Justice Stone, tasting a delicious sauce, turned to his hostess. "My, my!" he exclaimed, "I should like to know that recipe." "That's my secret, Mr. Justice," smiled his hostess, "but I'll trade mine for yours." Justice Stone could not reply...
Despite Belle Livingston, the antiquarian New York hostess of the speakeasy era who copiously advertises her concurrent appearances at a neighboring restaurant--despite Leo Beers and his country singing--the ten or a dozen red- gingham-covered tables which have replaced the first rows in the orchestra--"The Drunkard" is not given the opportunity of becoming the honestly entertaining revival which its well-executed flyer-program clarions...
...surrounded by her operatic trophies. The still lovely Emma Eames divides her time between Paris and Manhattan, occasionally revisits her old home in Bath, Me. Alma Gluck stopped opera-singing in 1912. Concerts and phonograph record royalties made her rich. And she is content to be a New York hostess and devoted wife to Violinist Efrem Zimbalist...
...nations, has 1,000,000 voting members, believes it comes in contact with five times as many young women. For Miss Woodsmall the extensive journeying which will be her lot as general secretary will be no great novelty. She taught school in Nevada and Colorado, became a Wartime hostess behind the French lines and in Coblenz. Doing Y. W. C. A. work for eight years in the Near East, Miss Woodsmall became an expert on the status of Oriental women. She will attend a women's suffrage meeting in Istanbul next April...
...hornet last week because she had not thought of the dream party was Professional Hostess Elsa Maxwell whose living comes from giving unimaginative socialites just such tips on how to have fun. A fat, nervous spinster whose business slogan is "It's too, too divine!" she went from San Francisco to Europe to teach boom-time U. S. millionaires and miscellaneous princelings how to have Murder Parties, Come-As-You-Were-When-the-Autobus-Called Parties, Scavenger Parties, Come-As-Somebody-Else Parties, Come-As-Your-Opposite-Parties, Come-As-the-Person-You-Like-Best Parties. Elsa Maxwell gave...