Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opinion which is specifically ascribed to me, I must conclude that you view it as within the limits to which the animadversions of political opponents upon each other may justifiably extend and consequently as not warranting the idea of it which Dr. Cooper appears to entertain. If so, what precise inference could you draw as a guide for your future conduct were I to acknowledge that I had expressed an opinion of you still more despicable than the one which is particularized...
...with an old Boston friend, Edward E. Moore, who serves as his assistant. On the terraces ''Joe'' Kennedy plays the urbane host at small dinners famed throughout the Capital for the excellence of cave and cuisine. In the private cinema theatre he may later entertain friends like Senator Wheeler, Legalite Cohen, General Counsel Burns. In the mornings before breakfast he takes a dip, naked, in the swimming pool...
...over a year he did nothing but travel for his health, collect books, give smart little dinners for political bigwigs, entertain friends in his private cocktail bar. Then at last he was ready to step out again. The Presidency of the Municipal Council is a one-year job that attracts little public attention but wields great influence with the National Government. A previous President of the Municipal Council was Socialist Pierre Godin. He and Jean Chiappe had been intimate friends for years. Their friendship did not break up when the scandals of the Stavisky case and the February riots forced...
...Bates, John lives in a big. old red brick house, owned successively by two late Secretaries of Agriculture (Wilson's Meredith, Harding's Wallace). "But," says John Cowles, "I don't want anyone to think my ambition is ever to be secretary of Agriculture." The Cowleses entertain often and well. Their bedded guests within a fortnight included such an assortment as Herbert Hoover. Thomas S. Lamont, Nicholas Roosevelt. Philip Ludwell Jackson, ebullient publisher of the (Portland) Oregon Journal who rarely gets to the office before noon and. having an elderly secretary who cannot take shorthand, never dictates...
...support a wife. Like nearly all university presidents' wives, Maude Hutchins has been roundly criticized for snobbishness. Mrs. Hutchins, however, is a New Englander with a mind of her own. Scores of faculty folk have sat at her board but she figured out long ago that if she entertained six faculty folk per night, five nights per week, it would take practically a year to go down the list. Hence she and her husband live quietly with their 9-year-old daughter Mary Frances ("Franja") and their Great Dane "Hamlet" on the second floor of the big, yellow-brick...