Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ponts and other moneyed aristocrats of Wilmington, Del., were honored not long ago to entertain young Baron George Exter Friedrich von Krupp, heir apparent to the vast Krupp works at Essen. The Baron was no mustachioed warlord but, on the contrary, save for his short-clipped blond hair and "der's" for "the's," differed little in mien from a U. S. college undergraduate. He conversed readily, fluently; talked of sport, history, politics; reminisced modestly of his grandfather; spoke of his mother, famed and able Bertha Krupp, with restrained admiration and affection. Then he would sigh...
Tons of "franked" (free) mail choke mail chutes on the way to impress or entertain voters these days. Congressmen tell mothers how to raise babies or crops, congratulate families on a new birth -all to let it be known that soon is the time for all good citizens to come to the aid of their party. Thirty-four Senators in 32 states (27 seats now Republican) in the autumn Senatorial contest will determine how the country feels in a general way over the issues last week outlined by party "Spokesmen" Lawrence C. Phipps, chairman of the Republican Senatorial campaign committee...
...Buckingham Palace. The cupboard, an ingenious toy stable, will be copied, with a few improvements, after that which houses the toys of Princess Mary's two infant sons, at Goldsborough Hall, Yorkshire. "Does Her Majesty expect an infant?" queried humble newsgatherers. "Her Majesty," retorted lofty courtiers, "will entertain at Buckingham Palace from January to June her granddaughter, (TIME, May 3) the Princess Elizabeth (aged, at present, nearly four months.) During that period their royal Highnesses, the Duke and Duchess of York, (parents of Elizabeth, "the baby who is always smiling") will journey to Australia on the cruiser Renown...
...What the Sam Hill?" queried virile Pacific Coast he-millionaires last week as Seattle, Wash., news organs scare-headed that Sam Hill will entertain Marie, Queen of Rumania, on her September visit to the U. S. (TIME, July...
...figuring in Seattle vocabularies as a euphemism for "the Devil," signifies paunchy Samuel Hill, millionaire husband of Mary, daughter of the late rail magnate, James J. Hill. Sam Hill, candid, reputedly confessed to Seattle pressmen last week that he built Maryhill, his estate on the Columbia River, "just to entertain a king or queen in," that he has been stalking royal guests ever since...