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Word: entertainingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Open House is scheduled again at the Club for 11:30 o'clock and the Hospitality Committee, headed by Ralph S. Foss '03, is hoping to obtain several Broadway stars to entertain the Harvard men present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PREXY OPENS DAY'S EVENTS | 5/18/1940 | See Source »

Undergraduate Vassar, reported Mrs. Allen, has changed greatly in the last 50 years. Girls no longer have to report to their teachers that they have taken two tub baths a week, nor entertain men in Engaged Parlor ("a kind of goldfish bowl"), nor go to chapel. They are almost a full year younger (17.8), two inches taller (5 ft. 5 in.), eleven pounds heavier (126), bigger around the waist, have nearly twice the lung capacity of the class of 1885. They may have men visitors in their rooms (afternoons), import Yale men for male parts in their plays, leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Vassar Women | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...join radio's cliff hangers and soap operas. In radio parlance, cliffhangers are dramas devoted largely to the perils of Pauline, who is frequently hanging from a cliff or its theatrical equivalent when a day's installment ends. Soap operas are milder thrillers, designed primarily to entertain housewives. Eleanor Roosevelt in her seventh paid radio job will dangle from no cliffs, but she will broadcast for a soap company at an hour when the air is loaded with troubled heroines. At 1:15-1:30 p.m. (E. S. T.) on April 30, Tuesdays and Thursdays thereafter, Sweetheart Toilet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: First Lady's Week | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

Swimmers have to be realists in the matter of pre-game hopes for victory, since most men's performances can be predicted if their previous times are studied. Because the clockings of the Yalemen have been consistently superior to most Harvard efforts, Captain Cutler and his team can hardly entertain many hopes of defeating Russ Duncan and his mates, but they will derive a certain satisfaction from scoring as many points as possible, and even in pushing the Blue mermen to new records...

Author: By Charles F. Pollak, | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 3/5/1940 | See Source »

...Class. Vice-President Secretary, and Treasurer. If elected, the President and his assistants will choose the heads of the Jubilee, monster Yardling dance in the spring, and of the Smoker, annual free stag party for first-year men, at which notables of the stage and sporting worlds entertain in Memorial Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Will Vote February 20 On Election Of Officers | 2/15/1940 | See Source »

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