Word: hostessing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...daughter of Ohio's Oberlin College president, met New Jersey's bachelor governor when he was visiting her parents two years ago, married him in January 1957. She is slowly losing her early shyness, dutifully turns up at official fetes, fairs and fund-raising projects, plays tireless hostess for frequent luncheons, dinners and sightseeing tours at the gubernatorial mansion. She campaigned with her husband at election time but gave few speeches, has made a pincushion out of the back seat of the Meyners' state-owned Cadillac. "These women come up to me with these flowers and they...
Garson, who subbed briefly for Rosalind Russell in the Manhattan version. Buckled back into the plane some 44 hours later, tireless Hostess Lillie was still crying for more ("I want to continue the party all night. To hell with Auntie Mame"), next day breathed plans for another weekend. New target: Rome...
...your-leave moves into his apartment and starts to paint a wall he has taken a shine to. Item by item he pawns the rich man's bibelots to buy the best of paints, the finest of champagne. Six weeks later, when the unwitting host and hostess walk in the front door, they stare in stupor at the devastation of their home-not to mention the wall, which looks as though it had been struck by an avalanche of garbage-and then sink quietly through a 6-ft. hole that somebody has carelessly knocked in the floor...
...introduction of liquor on airlines. Later he decided to serve it-free. Says he: "It costs you more money to sell liquor than to give it away. Also, we don't want our girls to sell whisky. Would you want your daughter to be an airline hostess if she sold whisky...
...book, speculated about its satirical intent: "To what end is a girl-child taught . . . to consider the brightness and fragrance of her hair, and the shape of her body, and her look of readiness for adventure? Why, what other end than that she shall be a really capable airline hostess?" In Esquire, Dorothy Parker succumbed to Nabokov's charms before the reader's eyes: "Lolita is a fine book, a distinguished book-all right, then-a great book...