Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Helen Howe, daughter of M. A. DeWolfe Howe '87, well-known editor and biographer, will entertain listeners this evening at 8.15 o'clock in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building. Her program, under the auspices of the Divisions of Music and Fine Arts will be a recital of monologues, given for the benefit of the MacDowell Colony League of Cambridge. Every year a series of annual presentations is arranged and offered by the citizens of Cambridge, with the aid of the University, for the benefit of the League...
...close friend of Tyrus Cobb and before the latter quit baseball often went to games. He and his wife entertain little, then usually for the younger set in Washington-his daughter is at Bryn Mawr. He is well liked in the Senate, is labeled a "fair" Senator, honest, conscientious, colorless. Every year he makes a few carefully prepared speeches, reads them in a conversational tone without gestures and carefully sends copies to the press gallery for distribution...
...already being called great. Though modern critics are hasty with their wreaths, this story of impoverished Dr. Richard Mahony, 49, who began anew in Australia, is indubitably a deep-dug, searing novel. Huddling his wife and three lateborn children within bleak walls, the Doctor felt too poor to entertain. He thus lost contacts, clientele. Then he removed to another town, where one of his daughters died, his own abilities ebbed. He set a bone awkwardly; his practice limped thereafter. Moving to the seashore, he tried again, became hopelessly deranged, attempted to burn his home. His wife worked as a postmistress...
Most modernly civilized part of Africa is the area of British dominion. South Africa. Native whites call themselves Afrikanders. Their language is Afrikaans, a modification of Dutch. They have a South African Association for the Advancement of Science. That Association last week began a fortnight's entertain-ment of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Capetown, Johannesburg, Pretoria. If the British Association met in the Dominion of Canada, Canadian and U. S. newspapers would tersely refer to it as the B.A.A.S.. or "British Ass." South African papers last week avoided abbreviation, for a great part...
Dancing will continue until 3 o'clock. At 11.45 o'clock supper will be served and at 12 o'clock the Freshman Instrumental Clubs will entertain the assembly...