Quotes About Hostesses

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

As for the evacuee children all over the county, their loving and starving parents, having had nearly four happy months of freedom, and seeing no reason why their children shouldn't be lodged, fed, clothed, educated and amused at other people's expense for ever, saw no reason to do anything more about them and hoped that the same fate would overtake the new baby whom most of them had had or were expecting. So all the hostesses buckled to afresh.

Airline hostesses show you how to use a seatbelt in case you haven't been in a car since 1965.

Tilden's Extract. It cost six cents for half an ounce and could be purchased at any drug store in the city. It was recommended for "over-wrought hostesses," who were advised to take a small dose before receiving guests or going out to dinner, to prepare them for the "rigors" of the evening ahead. Tilden's was pure extract of hashish.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

Of the numerous regrettable elements that go to make up the unlawful carnal-knowledge industry, I should single out for distinction the look of undisguised contempt that is often worn on the faces of its female staff. Some of the working 'hostesses' may have to simulate delight or even interest—itself a pretty cock-shriveling thought—but when these same ladies do the negotiating, they can shrug off the fake charm as a snake discards an unwanted skin.

Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.

One or two hostesses were so misguided as to insist on the Abbotts accepting their hospitality, but they did not repeat their mistake. Barbara was genuinely tired after her long days in the open air, and her bridge was so deplorable that even her best friends were annoyed.

Yet here the pilots were in England, fêted and pampered by the upper echelons of society, glamorized in movies and the press, enjoying themselves in spite of any guilt they may have felt. And here were their hosts and hostesses, with their very British insouciance, acting as if there would always be an England. In one context, this attitude was infuriating; in another, it was one of Britain's greatest strengths.

party, and because I'm a sportswriter, some hostesses confuse me with the witty scribes they remember from old TV shows, Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple, maybe. Anyway, we're invited to some nice gigs. I am not a party person,