Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vinegar Tree. Laura Merrick (Mary Boland) had had an affair with some sort of artist in her youth, was titillated when, years later, she was to entertain in her home the one she believed to have been her lover for an afternoon-Max Lawrence (Warren William). Vinegar Tree then proceeds to unfold some uncommonly good comedy for three acts, during which the artist finds himself entangled by Miss Boland and her younger sister and her virginal daughter. After the younger sister and the artist have gone into the garden together in Act III and the daughter is safely...
...ourselves 'Now we will spend so much on a moving picture.' We say, 'We will make the best that is in us. We will dream over it, we will toil over it, and if we put our hearts into it we will make something that will entertain and inspire the American public...
...epicure but no fussbudget. Dr. Browne likes to entertain, likes his guests to enjoy themselves. But people who eat and drink too much or who cannot distinguish good food from fodder annoy him. He has threatened to give two of his friends a dinner consisting entirely of hot dogs, thinks they will notice nothing...
...occasion like today's football game illustrates the desirability of modifying the present code so that two or three students might informally entertain. In their rooms for luncheon or tea without a chaperon. That there are valid objections to such change is doubtful, since similiar entertainment has been successful in such representative American universities as Yale and Princeton, and in conservative Oxford and Cambridge...
...CRIMSON in its own examination of the subject has formulated a tentative plan. According to this proposal, the various houses would be tuthorized to establish days when the residents could entertain as outlined above. These days might be once a week, once a month, whenever the occasion seems to be suitable. The organization of the House Plan permits what the old dormitory system did not; all gates but one may be closed and unattended guests excluded; private baths eliminate the danger of meeting half dressed men coming from the showers; house responsibility with tutors sharing in the life...