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...milksop face a mask of maniacal innocence, he joins the Madam (Mady Rahl) on a couch so voluptuous that his feet don't quite reach the floor. Whereupon, he proceeds to terrify the poor jade with his doubletalking request for the services of a young lady who can entertain a couple of eccentric friends in total silence. Such pimping could hardly be improved upon, which shows just how far an unpleasant comedy has to go to find a moment of pure Guinness...
...where only such freshly limned ladies as Fanny Hill and Fielding's Sophia Western were admitted to the discourse. Parisian culture was conducted far differently: it was the women who presided over the salons of serious talk. On Tuesdays, for example, the Marquise de Lambert was wont to entertain scientists in her stately salon, and on Wednesdays writers, artists and scholars. "She was one of the hundreds of gracious, cultured, civilized women who make the history of France the most fascinating story in the world...
...Gaines dog-food people put out a similar national guide (for 250) listing 7,200 hotels that a dog will find acceptable, and vice versa. Even the famed Guide Michelin notes (by a dog's head with a red line through it) which places will not entertain canines...
Strict Sabbaths kept by the Pennsylvania Dutch led to "Sabbath toys" or whirligigs. To entertain the children when boisterous play was banned, soldiers, firemen, Indians and, one suspects, parodies of the neighbors, were carved in wood with paddles for arms, painted and propped on the front porch or fence posts to whirl and jiggle at the slightest whiff of a breeze. They were often intricately animated. One, called Farm Industry, made about 1880, shows a long-skirted woman churning butter while her farmer husband, in the doorway of a barn, sharpens his tools on a grindstone. It doubled...
Your connections and Education are too respectable for me to entertain any objections to them. Your Profession is that for which I have the highest Respect and Veneration. The Testimonies I have received of your personal Character and Conduct are such as ought to remove all Scruples upon that head...