Word: hostessing
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...wife hid her red, swollen eyes behind large dark glasses; her expressive hands trembled. Normally an impeccable hostess, she was so rattled that she neglected to offer a drink to her visitor, TIME Correspondent William McWhirter. With a rueful laugh, she said: "The ridiculous thing is that people keep telephoning me, asking if I can help them. People on the street are so worried. I don't know why. I don't know why the poor people so fear Communism. Why didn't they go to the other side? Naturally, all the upper class would like...
...Constant Wife, Bergman is Constance Middleton, an amiable, idle woman who plays hostess to life in a well-appointed drawing room. Her husband John (Jack Gwillim) is a prosperous Harley Street surgeon who is having an affair with Constance's best friend, a blonde married flibbertigibbet. Omniscient as Sherlock Holmes and calmative as Candida, Constance knows all about it and does not wish to be told. But friends will tell...
Died. Perle Mesta, 85, capital society's "hostess with the mostes' "; of an apparent heart attack; in Oklahoma City. Famed as "Two-Party Perle" for her bipartisan hospitality, Mesta assembled Senators and Congressmen, celebrities, showpeople and occasionally Presidents for elaborately calibrated soirees over three decades. Perle's gaiety, feigned naughtiness and passion for scandalous secrets charmed a generation of guests. Heiress to fortunes from her father and her husband, a Pittsburgh steel magnate, she mastered machine-tool manufacturing, invested in cattle ranching, campaigned for an equal-rights amendment for women in the 1930s, and buttonholed Southwestern...
...Good morning, this is AM America," beamed Host Bill Beutel. Chirped Hostess Stephanie Edwards a second later: "This moment of tension is brought to you by a lot of nice people." On that note, ABC's long-ballyhooed big show finally hit the air last week...
...become aware for many reasons-environmental, social and fiscal-that we have lived unnecessarily high on the hog. You might say we're chickening out." Indeed, at a dinner party for ten with chicken rather than filet mignon as the entree and eliminating the caviar and Cointreau, a hostess can make considerable economies...