Word: entertainingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cinema pieces of recent nativity will entertain the discriminating...
...went to visit the great, romantic chieftain of Arabians, Ibn Saud, Sultan of Nejd and King of the Hejaz. Before a backdrop colorful with the picturesqueness of desert life strides a stalwart, six-foot Sultan, who scorns and rejects Occidental customs, yet is shrewd enough to entertain visiting British statesmen with their favorite brands of whiskey, mineral water, and even "kippers." When the Britons are gone, all residual whiskey & soda & kippers are abandoned on the desert by Ibn Saud, who, with an oath to Allah, bounds saddleward, up and away...
Reminiscing of the home in which she had visited M. & Mine. Raditch and the Seven Raditches. Mrs. Sinclair Lewis wrote: "He lived in a simple house in Zagreb and loved to entertain friends there, always offering them paprika sandwiches which made tears start while he talked-so rapidly and incoherently that the mind could hardly follow him. He earned a living by keeping a bookshop...
...Married. Lillian Leitzel, strong arm "flying-trapeze queen" of Ringling's Circus ; to Alfredo Cordona, gymnast; in Chicago. "We're going to entertain circus crowds as long as we live," they said...
This and more is the masthead of the Overland Mail, daily tabloid, born last fortnight on the Gold Coast Limited of the Union Pacific Railroad, somewhere between Chicago and the Pacific Ocean. The idea: to entertain patrons of the train, to tell them yarns about the scenery and the towns through which they pass...