Word: hostessing
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...manners go, the guide instructs foreigners to wait for the "hostess or wife" to begin eating before they...
...lines of stretch limousines and crowds of celebrity gawkers at Los Angeles' glassy Westin Bonaventure Hotel last Thursday signaled a Hollywood gala in progress. The collective star power of those in attendance would have done Oscar or Emmy proud. Elizabeth Taylor served as hostess and co- chairperson. Carol Burnett and Sammy Davis Jr. belted out a medley of show tunes. Fast-footed Hinton Battle strutted his stuff from the Broadway musical The Tap Dance Kid, and Rockers Cyndi Lauper and Rod Stewart teamed up to sing a pounding version of Time After Time. The audience was even treated...
...Whodunit?" but "Why did he do it here?"--a bloody good practical joke. A young man shows up at a small dinner party and is graciously assumed to be someone's guest as he mixes with the unctuous ease of an unreconstructed Yuppie. The next day he enters his hostess' warm kitchen, sits, chats ... and shoots his brains onto the stucco wall...
Arrive on time, because the curt hostess means it when she says that they don't hold tables. If you don't grab your seat, somebody else will--which brings us to The Yankee's most annoying idiosyncrasy. If there's an empty seat at your table, you could find yourself in the company of a fortunate stranger who walked in off the street searching for an opening...
DIED. James A. Dewar, 88, Continental Baking Co. vice president who retired in 1972 and who in 1930 invented the celebrated Hostess Twinkie, a sponge cake filled with sweet cream, beloved of schoolchildren and bewailed by nutritionists, that with 40 billion sold has become the nation's favorite snack cake; in Downers Grove, Ill. To critics, Dewar said, "I fed them to my four kids. Twinkies never hurt them...