Word: hostessing
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...expression on the conventioneer's face is obviously that of stunned excitement due to 1) the thrill of being in the Big City, 2) the strolling hostess on his far left, 3) the pickpocket to his immediate right, or 4) all of the above...
Paddy Goldman, a native working at the Sheraton as a convention hostess, marveled at the "amazing atmosphere of friendliness in the city. Everyone is talking to everyone else and being very helpful. I'm actually sharing cabs with people! Now, when can you get New Yorkers to share cabs? I wonder if I'll be doing it next week...
...coming weeks, visitors to Washington, D.C., who board a particular sightseeing bus may well be greeted by a tour hostess who will tell them about various points of interest-and then wind up by asking them to vote for her husband for Vice President of the U.S. Joan Mondale, 45, the Senator's quick-witted and sturdily self-possessed wife, works regularly for Washington Whirl-Around, a visitors' service operated by her friend Ellen Proxmire, wife of the Wisconsin Senator. "It's so much fun," says Mrs. Mondale. "They're all strangers I'm talking...
...with perfumed animal fat; the hair is then whitened with powder and molded over an egg-shaped wire frame usually 2-to 3-feet high. For daytime outings, this concoction is decorated with ribbons, feathers, flowers, birds' nests or vegetables. After entertaining eleven young women recently, a London hostess boasted that "they had, amongst them, on their heads, an acre and a half of shrubbery, besides slopes, grass plots, tulip beds...
...year for life. Eleven other women shared in Getty's largesse, including a German countess, a French art dealer, Getty's Nicaraguan companion Rosabella Burch (she got $82,625 in Getty stock) and Lady Ursula d'Abo, a merry London widow who acted as hostess at his parties ($165,250 in stock). The big winner, with $826,250 in stock plus $1,167 a month, was Penelope Ann Kitson, 53, a decorator who had known Getty since the 1950s but refused to marry him, said her ex-husband, because "she was not prepared to be trampled...