Word: entertainers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past nine years, President Roosevelt ate Thanksgiving dinner with the Warm Springs patients. He was in fine fettle, cracking little jokes at his critics and the Press. Introducing Julian Boehme of Atlanta, an amateur magician, the President announced: "I am going to ask him to entertain us with a number of things we have never been able to solve. Perhaps he will put on something about the gold standard...
...collapse. The end is chaos in any case; in the United States our specious boom is already aggravated by the disposition of banks and credit agencies to remain stagnant, Mr. Ford has a natural prejudice against the abolition of private ownership, a prejudice which any of us would entertain in his place. But this does not blind him to the folly of "planned capitalism", and I hope that his stand will be firm enough to reclaim many of the facile converts that our cotton ploughmen have made...
Those who judge professors by their eloquence or skill in "spoon-feeding" ought seduously to avoid Professor Abbott's lectures. I hope there are some others who believe that the true office of a teacher is to suggest and guide rather than to stuff or entertain. (Name Withheld by Request...
...characters, and something about a man who goes back and lives his life over, thereby being able to predict stock crashes and do other uncommon things. It is lively enough to watch, at least if you like the great Tracy; and the antics of snake-hips Karen Morley should entertain those renegades who won't listen to Doctor Worcester...
...primary purpose of the theater is to entertain and amuse," declared Victor Moore, famed comedian who again is portraying the role of the ineffectual Throttlebottom in "Let 'Em Eat Cake" at the Shubert Theater, the sequel to "Of Thee 1 Sing." in an interview last night...