Word: hostesse
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...corralled to join them at the castle and share expenses. When the eager housewives arrive, the gentry are already firmly ensconced in the most desirable rooms. Jessie Ralph, as the determined old dowager, keeps a watchful grip on the teapot of hospitality, so that the suburbanites, far from playing hostess, must meekly pass their cups...
...Borden ("Daisy") Harriman, eminent Democratic hostess...
...further into their emotional states when they saw who their fellow-guests were. The happily married scientists were embarrassed, tried not to show it. The mousy banker, Flora's tame cat, who had been picked up by a golddigger en route, had no eyes for anyone but his hostess. The golddigger, seeing that her dishonorable designs on the banker were hopeless, became honorable, which disappointed the professional Southerner. The pseudo-explorer, falsely thought to be Flora's lover, tried to get taken on by the advertising man's rich wife. The advertising man, who hated his wife...
...food: "Toast: Is a cold, hard fact faced by the cook the instant she rises and then set aside to get colder and harder while the rest of the meal is being prepared." Of party manners: "You will, of course, want to appear well-bred. So hand your hostess a dead fish, do the profile twist, and confine all conversational effort to words such as 'ghastly!' or 'septic!'" Of geniuses: They are forgiven after they are dead; poor sportsmen: never...
...arty 57th Street has devoted itself to the more advanced of the socially acceptable left-wing artists. Because famed British Critic Paul Nash has referred to him as the successor to Matisse and Picasso; because he has been called a master of impressionistic line; because the people whom Hostess Elsa Maxwell invites to her parties have decided that he is "too, too divine,'' the chaste grey walls of the Valentine Gallery were last week given over to a one-man show of the later drawings of James Grover Thurber. Gallerygoers, stepping sideways like crabs, passed from frame...