Word: entertain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...India-and duty had prompted her to stop off conscientiously in Bangkok, Singapore and Manila on her way home. When she arrived in San Francisco this week after five months abroad, she planned to turn temporarily from gallivanting-although not simply to rest. She had to hurry East, to entertain her old friend, Queen Juliana of Holland, and then, after settling down at Hyde Park, she had to dictate her book. She planned nothing but a furlough. As long as she has the strength, Eleanor Roosevelt will be laboring over the horizon, shaking hands energetically with reception committees and discovering...
...Within two weeks of my divorce," says Cobina, "America entered the war." President Wilson could scarcely have timed it better, for when the first Yanks arrived in Paris they found Cobina there to entertain them. She buddied around with General "Jack" Pershing, Barney Baruch, Jesse Jones and the Aga Khan. The spiritual ruler of millions of Ismailian Moslems was famous in those days, Cobina remembers, for his vast appetite at table and a fabulous bed, large enough for 24 people...
Five other House allow their residents to entertain women in the common rooms on Saturday evenings, as Leverett, Lowell, Winthrop, Dunster, and Adams have had similar plans in effect for several years...
Tonight, and probably every Saturday night from now on, the chandeliers in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room will be blazing away with a purpose. Their continual incandescence is one requirement of Kirkland Houses new rule permitting housemembers to entertain dates in the Common Room until eleven P.M. Saturday evenings...
...along with his valuable collection of antique silver by Paul Storr, silversmith to George III. Things like these needed a man's protection. Rose said he would also like to pick up some of his winter coats and suits, and furthermore he needed the house in order to entertain properly. His Ziegfeld Theater apartment, to which he is exiled (and where blonde Joyce Matthews, ex-wife of Milton Berle, slashed her wrists in a fit of melancholy last summer) "is much more a business office than a place to entertain graciously or adequately...