Word: entertained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past few years, biographies have enjoyed a steadily increasing vogue, and with this trend has sprung up a class of biographers depending for their fame and popularity more on their ability to write entertainingly than on their qualifications, if any, as scholars and historians. Their main purpose has been to entertain, and since the general public is more interested in people that are human, perhaps even a bit naughty, this new school of semi-historical writers has led to the exposing of one shibboleth aften another, the rendering of innumerable veils, the puncturing of bubbles, and the over-turning...
...then appears that Constance was no more annoyed than she was, because she holds a theory that marriage contract is, after love has passed, merely a friendly association, in which the wife, in return for being maintained in a certain position, uses her husband's household to entertain his friends. As long as he maintains her in the manner to which she is accustomed she must remain faithful, and he may do as he pleases...
...Monds, more than the other leading English Jewish families-the Rothschilds, Isaacs, Samuels, Sassoons, Montagus-love to entertain. To their city house on Lowdnes Square, Belgravia, London, close to both Buckingham Palace and Hyde. Park, they invite politicians, artists,*writers, merchants, notables of every profession...
...season they entertain with as lavish hospitality at the other London house, Mondalfro,* or at their great estate, Melchet Court, a few miles northwest of Southampton. Lady Mond forebore her many social activities during the War; accomplished much alleviation of suffering, for which she was created (in 1920) Dame Commander of the British Empire...
...will also entertain chance visitors to Cambridge and serve to take their minds off the game. Then, if we lose, it will not matter so much; and the bystanders will go home feeling that the game was merely a side-show in the circus, and that the circus itself (Harvard) was rather a jolly and zestful and snappy and "College" place after all. Warwick Potter Scott...