Word: hostessing
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Years later, when her widowed father had become India's first Prime Minister, Indira served as his official hostess. She met most of the world's leaders and observed all the drawing-room machinations of power. In 1959, party officials asked her to take what was in effect the nation's second most powerful position -the presidency of the Congress Party. After Nehru's death in 1964, she became Minister of Information and Broadcasting. Trying to explain her hold on the people, who turned out for rallies in numbers that frequently exceeded those attracted...
...says, "but I am dedicated to him in a certain respect." Now Cardullo puts in 14 hours a day, seven days a week. The only time he sees friends is when they come in as customers. His girl friend had to take a part-time job as a hostess...
...lists his self-citations: "warrior, presumptive general, ex-political candidate, embattled aging enfant terrible of the literary world, wise father of six children, radical intellectual, existential philosopher, hard-working author, champion of obscenity, husband of four battling sweet wives, amiable bar drinker, and much exaggerated street fighter, party giver, hostess insulter." Not bad, but incomplete. Add frustrated novelist, passionate movie dabbler, sexual scientist, terror of the TV talk shows, critic of the global village and, to the ladies of Women's Liberation, master male chauvinist...
...beat the meringue an hour before serving, and re-beat it at the minute, the beating takes but a few minutes in an efficient mixer and your guests should not mind a short wait.") With the kitchen door safely closed behind us, we dropped our unflappable-host-and-hostess grins and became panting haute cuisine speed freaks. Getting the ice cream out of the molds and onto the gateau genoise only took a moment, and we beat and we beat and as the laughter of the dinner party increased out beyond the doors, the egg whites refused to form their...
...entering, each sinner is met by a hostess who offers a strictly proper degree of sympathy. First, she gives the sufferer a snort of oxygen and a secret concoction. "My chemistry's right," Harris says. "The drinks just replace in the system what's been depleted by the alcohol." Then the patient steams a while, undergoes a whirlpool bath, downs a second concoction and, according to Harris, that does it. "I can cure a hangover in ten minutes," he claims, "but with the sympathy, it takes from...