Word: entertain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first piece of the first batch listed above gives an acute analysis of the ways and woes of a charming hostess who endeavors to entertain some dozen heterogeneous people at once, and wins by being vague. The next is a grim one: a diagnostic study of a diagnostic man. It shows what happens when a psychiatrist has a love affair. The third snaps itself abruptly to the vaudeville stage and gives us Noel asking his lovely, amazingly gifted partner, Gertrude Lawrence, "Who was that woman I saw you with last night?" The versatility of the pair is so great that...
...hand as John Harvard, is a little amusing. The College rules have never, of course, permitted ladies, singly or in droves, to enter a College dormitory unescorted, and then only in the afternoon. The new rule is worded thus: "Students living in the Houses will be given permission to entertain ladies in their rooms (there it is again!) without a chaperone only if there are two or more ladies present." This not only answers the old riddle, "When is a lady not a lady?" (Answer: "When she's a chaperone"), but flings a challenging glove into the ladies' very teeth...
...King into a cheerful smile deserves praises, instead of criticisms. Mrs. Ernest Simpson is beautiful, young, slim and graceful. She is a socialite and has the good sense to add her husband on all her outings with royalty* With all the titled women in the realm to entertain him, King Edward VIII shows an artistic appreciation in selecting a young married woman, and a clever American, to entertain him during his long hours of bereavement. He has traveled all over the world and yet only an American woman can "charm" him, socially...
...Harriet Craig (Rosalind Russell), Walter Craig (John Boles), is simply a means to an end - having a house of her own which, spotlessly neat, secure against all intrusions, symbolizes perfectly her own empty meanness. Craig submits peacefully when forbidden to smoke in doors, entertain his friends or go out for an evening of poker. He even smiles indulgently when Mrs. Craig runs his aunt out of the house, insults a friendly grand mother who lives next door and drives the servants into giving notice. It is a long worm which has no turning. Walter Craig's rebellion starts when...
...people watched little Williams beaten, 27-to-7. The increase was caused not by the fact that Princeton's football team had lost only one game in three years, but by something which Princeton's enterprising Athletic Association had arranged, in place of a brass band, to entertain the customers between halves. It was an all-star mile race in which the No. 1 entrant was New Zealand's famed Jack Lovelock, Oxford medical student and Olympic champion, stopping off on his first trip home in six years...