Word: hostesse
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...these same women arranged dances, invited the sailors to done, and in fact threw open their houses to them. It so happens that a majority of the Radio School students come from the South, where hospitality is a universal quality. Conservative Cambridge has shown herself a considerate and genial hostess to these men, and it has been through the efforts of the women. When the war is over and these Southerners return to their homes, remembrances of a Northern city will be related which will correct some erroneous impressions, and it is not to be doubted that they now exist...
...University Musical Clubs will give a concert at the Montclair Club, Montclair, N. J., this evening at 8.15 o'clock. Mrs. W. I. Lincoln Adams will be hostess at a tea dance this afternoon. Dancing will follow the concert. Members of the Musical Clubs will be the guests of the Montclair Alumni of the University tonight...
...they find their relation to each other rapidly and fatally changing. To the quiet, religious young girl Chicago is a brutal nightmare; to the coarser-grained young man it is gloriously American, "the voice of the great old century we live in." To her his friends, their host and hostess, are vulgar and almost disgusting; to him they are fascinatingly alive. She breaks the engagement, but "puts a good face on it" till after dinner. America doesn't "pass by": it stays and does its deadly work...
...University has come to the aid of the war sufferers in Europe in a very substantial manner. President Lowell has cabled to Lady Osler, of England, who is now acting as hostess of the refugee professors that were driven from the University of Louvain at the time of the sacking of the city by the Germans, saying that the University will offer a lectureship to one of these professors at the beginning of the second half-year...
...despair of the Grand Vizier, the Sultan assents to their suggestion for a splendid ball. The Sultan's difficulty in preparing the entertainment is only exceeded by the trials of Diana, the modern hostess. Owing to the premature publication of the morning paper, the Sultan, reading an account of his own destruction, foils the plotters and brings them to justice...