Word: entertain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...animals. Tony stakes out free land (having deceived a government surveyors' party as to just where water was available), steals cleanskins (i.e., unbranded cattle), lives like a patriarch among a mob of women, and toward the end of a misspent life is so rich that he threatens to entertain a visiting royal duke, presumably the Duke of York, later King George VI of Britain. For years Tony had lived in a shack and never learned to read, but he employed a man to read good books to him-like Rudyard Kipling...
...enjoy a popular, scandalous and critical success (Diplomatic Conclusions drew indignant disclaimers from the French Foreign Office). Waspish Author Peyrefitte writes like a countryman of Rabelais and Voltaire, but in the U.S., where there is no comparable tradition of anticlerical literature, he is likely to shock more than to entertain...
...racing tongued show-stopper from Lady in the Dark, "Ugly Duckling" from Hans Christian Anderson and "Anatol of Paris." The audience was enthusiastically ready to doubt him when he interrupted at one point to say, "there is nobody living in the entire world who likes to hear me entertain better than...
...Manhattan courtroom, three call girls testified that at least three times last year one or another of them had given her all for G.E. products. Lewis E. Rinker and John A. Murray, both officials of G.E.'s supply company in Newark, N.J., admitted they paid the girls to entertain important customers, .all in the interests of good business. Said Rinker, at the time one of the supply company's Newark promotion men: "This is public relations. It certainly creates good will...
Harvard men have long suffered the discomfort of not having an inexpensive place near the Quad where they could entertain their dates. This is not a great problem, except at the present season of the year, when the temperature is not conducive to the outdoor practice of the simpler pleasures...