Word: hostessing
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...chilled shot and chillier hunters. But whether the hunters will get their usual warm welcome when they stumble home with the day's bag (up to ten ducks and up to six geese per gunner) remains to be seen. After all the fuss, it may be a rare hostess who urges upon a guest a second helping of goose. -By Claudia Wallis...
Last night, hordes of well-groomed cadets patrolled the streets of Cambridge and Boston, while others attended a mixer arranged by the Point's Hostess Office and featuring young women from Smith, Mount Holyoke and Wellesley...
...lives half the year in Barbados, where she owns a house, and there she is almost as famous a hostess as she is an actress. "Her house is exquisitely decorated," says Jean-Pierre Aumont, her co-star in A Talent for Murder. "She has fantastic taste. Her table is set as if it's at the White House -which is funny because you eat wearing bathing suits." She has an apartment on Fifth Avenue as well and, now that she is by herself, also indulges one of her passions: travel. Hollywood? "The whole thing is over for me there...
Debrett is too squeamish to say much about sex, and the little counsel that is offered tends to be erratic. Men should rise for a woman after work, but not at an office meeting. A hostess can, in good conscience, allow an unmarried couple to share a bedroom (a stunning advance from the Victorian days when etiquette guides recommended that even books by unmarried male and female writers be kept on separate shelves). At large parties, however, coats should be sexually segregated-women's in the bedroom, men's in the hall...
...with vivid examples. His heroes carom off two patrolmen dubbed "street monsters" for their appetite for violence; a Marine posing for gay sculptors; the Ferret and the Weasel, a pair of frenzied narcs; a Vietnamese assassin; Tuna Can Tommy, a flasher with a phenomenal physique; and a massage-parlor hostess called Jackin Jill...