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...like a hostess who forgets to serve her prized dessert so that afterward only she knows what the guests have missed, the icewomen left their aggressive skating in the locker room during the second period of both their contests, suffered two hapless losses, and settled for a disappointing sixth place...

Author: By William A. Danoff, | Title: Icewomen Slip In Ivies; Cornell, Brown Split Title | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

...haunting memory to the line: "Miss Scarlett, I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!" Looking as fresh and freckle-faced as ever, Butterfly and her quavery drawl have now returned to Atlanta. Still a part-time playground assistant in Harlem, she will act as hostess for the Gone With the Wind Museum for the next four months. Then, who knows? After all, tomorrow is another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 26, 1981 | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

Dear Ann Landers: My wife has been a stationary snowdrift from the day we married ... She is an excellent mother, a fine housekeeper, a gracious hostess and active in the League of Women Voters. But she is more than cold, she's frozen. Starvation Diet

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Homespun Zaps and Zingers | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

...spend a night in the Executive Mansion, but gossipmongers are already clucking about Nancy Reagan, the spendthrift fashion plate, the extravagant hostess, the gunslinger and, after her press secretary was suddenly removed, the axwoman. Now grapeviners are chortling over the latest rumor, featuring Nancy the demon decorator (with a reprise of the axwoman theme). According to the story, Nancy, while touring her next home, was upset by the appearance of the Lincoln Bedroom. "That wall has to go," she announced. White House Chief Usher Rex Scouten explained that the room is historic and should not be touched, which only convinced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 12, 1981 | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

...about First Family. After an hour and a half of inanities, you leave the theater feeling like you had been to what was billed as the greatest Washington dinner party of the year--catered by the finest restaurant, with the most interesting and "in" people in attendance--and the hostess' five-year-old son threw up on the Pakistani ambassador and the English wolfhound did likewise on the wife of the Secretary of Defense...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: An Impeachable Offense | 1/9/1981 | See Source »

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