Word: hostessing
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Washington is a versatile hostess. Her salon welcomes coats of many colors. Two weeks ago she opened her arms to the 30th Jubilee of the Anti-Saloon League (TIME, Jan. 28). Last week she shook hands with the "Face-the-Facts" Conference of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment...
...giving a big luncheon party. In the middle of it, someone called her up to say that an important issue had suddenly developed in the Senate. Grabbing a hat and hurling an abrupt apology at her guests, Alice left the astonished crowd to finish the party without a hostess...
...inconsolable grief of the ex-Premier, whose physical sufferings, long endured, were thereby considerably aggravated. Both daughters are still living to mourn their father: Lady Sykes, wife of Major General Sir Frederick Sykes, Controller General of Civil Aviation; Miss Catherine Law, who so admirably stood hostess for her father during his short tenure of office at No. 10 Downing Street...
...Charles Dana Gibson: "Newspapers dubbed me 'America's hostess' because I have entertained during the past two years at my home at No. 127 E. 73rd St., Manhattan, Lady Astor, Georges Clemenceau, David Lloyd George...
...London society will have a new hostess in the person of the Duchess of York. Her Royal Highness was prevented from making her début as a hostess last season owing to her indisposition from whooping cough...