Word: hostessing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Last month she invited Mrs. Ericksen to the White House. There the astounded Mrs. Ericksen was met by the President's wife and members of the A. Y.C., who straightway whelmed her with arguments. Mrs. Ericksen spent the night, went home, wrote a "thank you" note to her hostess, added: "But my opinion of the American Youth Congress has not changed." Retorted Mrs. Roosevelt, who is not easily downed: "May I come and speak to your community?" and set a date...
...hostess of Fontainebleau decided she needed some big-league help. A constant reader of the New York Herald Tribune's conservative Columnist Mark Sullivan, she wrote to him, emitting an Ericksenian cry of distress. When Mrs. Roosevelt arrived at Fontainebleau, wearing flame-colored chiffon, a necklace of sharks' teeth, great was her surprise to encounter Mr. Sullivan, in white tie & tails...
...shoulders, publicity men billed him as another Gable. Unlike Actor Gable and the majority of his colleagues, he never talks to fan magazine writers, spurns nightclubs, carries his dislike of Hollywood parties to the point of rudeness. This has made him much sought after and Hollywood's premier hostess, Mrs. Basil Rathbone, is reported this year to have announced that she would trade Stokowski, Rubinstein and Rachmaninoff for one Brent appearance at a party...
...sorry," said Captain A. P. Miceli, "but we don't enlist women. Did you mean you want to be an Army nurse?" "No!" said she, "and I don't want to be an infantrywoman and carry a rifle, either. I want to be a hostess on an Army bomber...
...over the U. S., thousands of militant citizens clamored for something to do for Defense. They besieged local recruiting stations, deluged the War and Navy Departments in Washington with letters. A great many wanted to be the equivalent of a hostess on an Army bomber. Few considered enlisting for the lowly job of buck private or gob. Some were too old; many had special talents which would be wasted in the ranks. But buck privates and gobs are what the Army & Navy want. The Army already has so many (117,000) reserve officers that it is issuing no more commissions...