Word: entertain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girl friend is coming up from Vassar. I know I'll be embarrassed when I try to entertain her with the bed not made...
Donald F. McNiel '52 voiced the typical opinion: "If they had to pick one day, why Saturday, the day that most students entertain in their rooms? Why not some day in the middle of the week, like the barberless Wednesday...
...voice, unlike California-born Tokyo Rose's, is "strictly un-American." One U.S. officer thought she sounded like a Korean who might have lived in England. And she was nowhere near so effective as either Sally or Rose. A veteran master sergeant complained: "Hell, Tokyo Rose used to entertain you. This babe's just a bore. Now if she'd only play some Benny Goodman or something like that, she'd get some listeners...
...Reader Scruggs's letter: "TIME continues to make statements which disturb me greatly. I speak in reference to your repeated comments about military strategy for World War III. . . . TIME should not entertain its readers with such potential propaganda" [July 3, 1944]-(Pfc.) Baxter S. Scruggs
Plucky little Minnie (Mrs. Charles) Guggenheimer, who started the concerts to entertain doughboys during World War I and had mothered them ever since, sent out an S 0 S asking for 50,000 stadium fans to pitch in a dollar apiece. Already one week of mid-August concerts had been lopped off the schedule. If the $50,000 was not forthcoming and the weather didn't improve, the 1950 season would end even sooner...