Word: hostesse
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...Harvard, she entered at once into the life of this most complex of universities. She occupied herself with its social affairs, was helpful in the work of the Harvard Dames, and welcomed students with cordial informality to the Sunday afternoon receptions. But more than the graces of the temporary hostess were hers: she made the President's House a center of hospitality throughout the year for the University and for the legion of visitors, whose number reached its peak at Commencement. She was accustomed to visit students at the Infirmary, and her interests in charitable undertakings outside Harvard were widespread...
...American Embassy will give a reception on Monday and on the following day a dinner and reception will be tendered to Mrs. Hearst by the Princess Del Drago. On Wednesday the Princess Altiri will be her hostess at dinner...
Originally one of vaudeville's "Willson Sisters," Mrs. Millicent Willson Hearst, mother of five sons, sumptuous hostess, (Palm Beach, California, New York, the Continent), philanthropist, landlady of smart Manhattan apartments, dabbler in English magazines (Nash's), is the daughter of Comedian George Willson, clog dancer, once famed as "George Leslie" for his Negroid dance "Mule in the Sand." now opulently retired, addicted to the stovepipe...
...higher than almost anywhere else. This economic fact is really the basis of the White Slave traffic. Young women are promised and young women are paid for dancing, sums which would be "big money" in Europe, but in the Argentine they are so meagre that the dancer becomes the hostess and the hostess the common or uncommon daughter...
...gentlemen sat down for a series of unmannerly, inquisitive tea parties. Ignoring social usage, they did not gather at tea time but in the morning when their senses were acute. Ignoring polite tradition, they sniffed each cup vigorously, filled their mouths full, then spewed into large brass cuspidors. No hostess was present to pour tea from the hundred assembled samples, nor was there any host except the U. S. Government. The nearest to such a functionary was, however, John Joseph McNamara, Chairman of the Board and a tea sampler for 14 years. Sitting first, he gathered other tasters around...