Word: entertainingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into Manhattan last week trooped 221 delegates to the National Contesters' Association's fourth annual convention. This week, as a polite gesture to the assembled contesters, CBS's Professor Quiz will entertain on his program two hotshots of the organization: paper-thin, 28-year-old Everett Lane, founder and past president, and Joan Lambert, head of the All-American Contestar School of Willow Grove, Pa., which has about 2,000 students...
From January on, the Placement Office will entertain recruiters and otherwise receive job orders for Seniors. Each employer will specify requirements for the men he wants to hire and the Office will select for interviews those students only who best meet the specifications...
With this letter a month ago, the National Theatre Conference began to prepare to entertain the troops. A kind of holding company for the non-Broadway stage, the National Theatre Conference is supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, has its roots in every high school, university and community theatre in the country. Having brooded long over the haphazard entertainment that was dished up to the doughboys in World War I, the directors of the Conference are getting set for future...
Women in War (Republic). Elsie Janis thoroughly enjoyed World War I. As soon as the U. S. was well in, the veteran actress, who since the age of five had been entertaining audiences with mimicry and handsprings, dashed off to France to entertain the doughboys. How she did it she later told with much gusto in her autobiography, So Far, So Good! "From the fuss that the fellows made over me, I'm sure they thought I must be at least the American edition of Bernhardt. Imagine their surprise when my performance consisted of telling stories filled with hells...
...amusement capital of the nation is chronically bored. There are too many entertainers in Hollywood who want to be entertained on their nights off, too few gilded saloons to entertain them. Hollywood gets tired of making the round of its half-dozen bars, listening to its own prolific gossip. Recently Hollywood found an exciting new interest-the war. Before the invasion of France most Hollywooders began (and ended) their reading of the press with the movie columns. Now they are beginning to bend an ear toward Roosevelt, Churchill and Reynaud with as much respect as toward Louella Parsons or Jimmie...