Word: entertained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fortunate to have an opportunity to work for the support of the World Court. Fortunately many of them will some day be able to look back on this period of struggle for world organization, and to see in perspective the fruits which will have come out of it. I entertain little doubt that they will then regard America's delay in accepting both the World Court and the League of Nations as we now regard Rhode Island's delay in accepting the Constitution of the United States
Surely the parents would entertain no good opinion of such a person. Yet they should actually be grateful to him. Tickling is splendid for a baby, and a noise when it is going to sleep will promote its future. It was so stated last week by Sir Harry E. Bruce-Porter, London specialist in children's diseases. He explained that tickling makes babies laugh and thus develops their lungs; that loud sounds when they are composing themselves for slumber prepare them for "the rough and tumble of later life...
...whole the November number of the Harvard Advocate is sadly disappointing. Its contents are mediocre as regards style and not particularly noteworthy as to subject matter. Except for evoking reminiscences of better days not so long past, it can hardly entertain the reader...
There is a scandal sheet for the book-reading public as well as for the shop girls and mechanics who entertain themselves on the Sabbath with the misadventures of financiers and stage beauties. Consequently, not a year passes without a tremendous sale for some book on the private affairs of the great and near great, written by a person who is blatantly on the inside of everything, and can entertain the curious with bons mots and moth-eaten scandal for four hundred pages. The Greville Memoirs (unexpurgated--think of it!) are shortly to be published in this country...
...Jason Noble Pierce, of the First Congregational Church, Washington, D. C., requested his parishioners to entertain delegates to the Congregational Convention. Parishioner and Mrs. Coolidge said they could accommodate nine guests. So seven pastors and two wives were billeted upon them...