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...fate of extended hours to entertain women in the Houses is now largely in the hands of the Housemasters...
Thomas M. Lownes '56--who brought about the circulation of the petitions in House dining halls last night, recalled that it was during his freshman year that the 1-4 p.m. parietal hours were removed. At that time the Administration granted in return permission to entertain women up to 11 p.m. instead of 8 p.m. on Saturdays, but the net parietal loss was still 15 hours a week...
Above all else Felix developed the ability to change his nature and his wit to profit from any situation. He could be French, Italian or English at the drop of his handsome lower lip. He could entertain monarchs with homely stories about house pets or penetrating analyses of the social-economic state of the nation...
Even the diplomats, most of them petit bourgeois civil servants, were awed by the royal visitors, and the Asiatic envoys outdid one another in their efforts to entertain the maharaja royally. As usual. Ambassador Ali came out ahead, with an elaborate garden party celebrating the maharaja's 43rd birthday. In the garden behind the receiving line he thoughtfully installed an attic fan. to cool the royal rear. The maharani gamely learned to dance the Cha Cha Cha, while her husband consumed four bottles of champagne and discoursed on the fine points of pigsticking. When the turbaned waiters brought...
...course, that a conscientious citizen will genuinely entertain more of 'an abhorrence of unrestrained inquiry into beliefs' than of perjury. Yet the Government has constantly inquired into men's beliefs but never until recently did it occur to anyone to abhor...