Word: entertain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Balinese Room of the Hotel Somerset on March 31 and in the Towne Club the next night. In New York the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria will house the cabaret, and Deanna Durbin, Libby Holman, Ethel Merman, and Sheila Barrett are among those who are scheduled to entertain...
...English, is lifting his baritone voice in song fairly often these days. As critical judgement and undergraduate amazement at his recent performance of an operatic aria, the "Miserere" from a well-known opera, is dying down, word comes that he has turned to more popular musical fare to entertain his classes...
...students entertain the belief that there will be a reception line of prospective employers awaiting them with flattering offers of jobs on Commencement Day. They know that if they get any offer of a job at all, it likely will be of the blue-denim rather than of the white-collar variety. And they'll accept that blue-denim job in the hope that some day times may be better and their college training may help them to advance...
...note of high Victorian principle and good will Koki Hirota announced: "In Europe and America there are some who are apt to entertain misgivings regarding Japanese intentions, as though she were trying to close China's door and expel the interests of the powers from China. . . . Not only will Japan respect to the fullest extent rights and interest of the powers in the occupied areas but she is prepared for the purpose of promoting welfare of the Chinese people to leave the door wide open to all powers and to welcome their cultural and economic co-operation there...
What a lot of fun TIME'S critics would miss if artists did not entertain them with their serious work. With what penetrating wit these specialists observe that Martha Graham's Frontier (TIME, Jan. 10) is, after all, but a fence-act; that modern dance numbers when repeated become hash; that drums that accompany the modern dance are thumped and oboes tootle...