Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answer could come as early as Wednesday or it might be postponed for almost a fortnight. Whereas the Indians play their last league contest day after tomorrow, Princeton has a full third of its schedule left. The Tigers entertain Penn on Wednesday and go to Ithaca on Saturday in two vital battles. Columbia must be met at home on the 11th and the annual game in the Palestra, which has concluded the Princeton schedule for the past 15 years, is set for March 14. The indications are that that if the Tigers go down clawing just once, the Indians will...
Like Tetrazzini, Soprano Calvé tried to cash in on her name with a U.S. vaudeville tour, in 1927. Then she returned to Millau, where she owned a fortress-like château, to raise sheep, train younger singers, entertain elderly gallants. She sold the château before World...
...fall to pieces after a flashy start; they dissolve when their small aims are accomplished or when they despair of their big aims; or the members part at a political fork in the road. Definitely, the Post-War Council must avoid over-organization; it must preserve its balance and entertain all viewpoints. The second danger is that the flame of the idea will be confined to Harvard; that the committees will stop short of every state and endowed college from Boston to Los Angeles. If they never forget that their movement is in pitiful infancy until they achieve such...
...only in the daytime was Honolulu active. At night the blackout was complete-blacker than London ever had been. Most people dined at 5:30 and nobody went about after dark. In the beginning, sentries in the streets shot first and challenged afterwards. Kamaainas (long-settled whites) had to entertain themselves with card games and gossip at home in dim-lit, tightly-sealed rooms. No liquor was to be had, and candy sales went up with a rush. The hotspots-from the Royal Hawaiian to the plebeian Venice Cafe were shut tight. Overhead the air patrols constantly thundered...
Deanna Durbin came out of two months of obscurity to announce that she was going to England with Husband Vaughn Paul to entertain troops and war workers. The 20-year-old singer, who has been idle ever since Universal suspended her in October, said Viscount Halifax had invited...