Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Explained Citizen Coolidge: "We needed more room to entertain our friends suitably. Also the place will make our dogs more comfortable." Citizen Coolidge did not mention the opportunity he will now have to cart out of storage the 19 truckloads of furniture, souvenirs, bibelots, books, cowboy hats, jackknives et al brought from the White House (TIME...
...There are, however, those who entertain belief that Balbino is not pregnant. They contend that the alleged pregnancy may only be an overgrowth of the flesh...
...Court. Her 66-lb. sailfish, landed after a two-hour battle from dusk to moonrise eight miles out in the Atlantic, set the season's record, won her one of the Long Key fishing club's little gold buttons for a championship.* Washington society, whom the Stones entertain often and well, waited for her own account of the feat. If anyone should impolitely doubt her story, she can substantiate it by the best evidence-a cinema of her catch taken by Mrs. Hoover herself in the same small boat...
Story. Sadko, a singer who played on the gousla (ancient Russian handharp), was summoned to entertain banqueting merchants. Instead of praising them, his singing boasted of what he would do with their opportunities, so that they drove him into the streets. Thence he went to the shores of Lake Ilmen, sang sorrowfully until there appeared Volkhova, Princess of the Sea. Instantly she loved Sadko for his song, told him that if he cast his net into the waters he would draw forth three golden fishes which would spell wealth, happiness. Sadko rushed home, cast aside his doting wife, proceeded...
...Hubert's. Most important airport in Canada, most thoroughly equipped, is St. Hubert's across the St. Lawrence from Montreal. The main section was put into service last October, when the Montreal Light Aeroplane Club held a pretty air pageant to entertain the twoscore national air tour planes from the U. S. St. Hubert's has Canada's unique mooring mast, to accommodate the British dirigible R-100 if she crosses the Atlantic next May as planned. A hydrogen manufacturing plant stood nearly completed last week. New roads were being built from the airport...