Word: entertainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London's chill, dusty St. James's Palace, workmen labored last week cleaning windows and installing a special hot-water system. Here, on Jan. 9, King George VI, whose own state dining room in Buckingham Palace was still not redded up for peace, would entertain the chief delegates to UNO at a banquet...
Strange Fruit ran display ads quoting Senator Bilbo: "It should disgust you in stead of entertain you. Personally I would be ashamed to attend such a performance...
Then came the formal opening of the White House season. Instead of a massive state dinner, Mrs. Truman chose to entertain at two teas, one at 4 and one at 5 p.m. All members of Congress (and their wives) were invited whose surnames begin with A, B & C (the others will be asked in turn). Ike Eisenhower dropped in, grinned that he had not expected his first day as Chief of Staff to include a party...
From now on, explained a Palace spokesman, the Princesses will "live the lives of two young girls." Elizabeth, who now has her own apartment at the Palace, likes helping Papa and Mama entertain. At Palace parties, the King loves to lead a conga line. Every fifth dance he dutifully foxtrots or waltzes with the Queen...
...apartment in Paris' genteelly shoddy Invalides district, Paul Scott Mowrer is eating poorly, like the French, but happy to be back. Son Richard, also a Postman,* sometimes sends coffee and canned groceries from the States. Then Paul and his wife Hadley (once the first wife of Ernest Hemingway) entertain the opposition: Paris Herald Editor Geoffrey Parsons Jr., who argues with Zenobie, the cook, about De Gaulle, but never about cooking...