Word: entertainement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know what's at the movies before you let the children go ... you go to church (more often than your husband does) . . . you keep up with other reading as well as the news (you own 241 books, buy about eight new ones a year) . . . you like to entertain, have guests in for dinner at least one evening a week . . . you make fudge at home, you play the piano and see that at least someone in the family takes vitamins on schedule...
...Gillette: The Chair refused to entertain the point of order raised by the Senator from Maryland...
...were the Negroes. Volleyed California's State Tax Administrator B. B. Bratton: "Louis B. Mayer is losing [that] adroit sense of . . . the fitness of things which marks the master showman. . . ." Thundered George A. Beavers, of the Golden State Life Insurance Co.: "It is sheer folly for Jews to entertain . . . the notion that they will escape the wrath which racial and religious bigotry let loose when tensions are increased by propaganda novels like Uncle Tom's Cabin." Boomed the Negro press: Uncle Tom was a socially significant work in its day, now it is just a reminder...
...SATIRE. WE GRANT, OR ANYWAY MOST OF US DO, THAT WE ARE THE WORLD'S FUNNIEST PEOPLE. YOU CAN WRITE MORE JOKES ABOUT US THAN YOU CAN ABOUT PLUMBERS, UNDERTAKERS OR FULLER BRUSH SALESMEN. HOLLYWOOD IS GUILTY OF DELIBERATE WITHDRAWAL FROM THE LIVING WORLD. IT SEEKS TO ENTERTAIN, AND WE SUSPECT THAT THE SUCCESS OF THE WITHDRAWAL IS WHAT MAKES HOLLYWOOD FUNNY. BUT LET TIME MAGAZINE VIEW WITH ALARM OR POINT WITH PRIDE, BUT NOT LAUGH OFF HOLLYWOOD'S GROWING RECOGNITION OF THE FACT THAT EVERY MOVIE EXPRESSES, OR AT LEAST REFLECTS, POLITICAL OPINION. MOVIEGOERS LIVE ALL OVER...
...sided and often untrue. All gifts in Hollywood are likely to be on the sunny side of munificence, and Louella invariably spends more on gifts than the value she receives. It is the same with parties. Louella and her husband love them and give them often. Sometimes the Martins entertain 300 people in an evening; their home on Maple Drive is known around Hollywood as the Parsons Short-Order House...