Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago he found it convenient to live in London's St. Pancras Hospital. At no, when World War II began, he took singing lessons again "in order to entertain the soldiers, since they won't let me fight." Sometimes he found it helpful to wear spectacles. His hair began to grey. Said he: "I smoke, drink and stay up late and always shall...
Every afternoon shortly after 1, a crowd of sleepy-eyed "town girls," "call girls," "party girls," juke-joint dames and dance-hall hostesses gather at No. 513½ Dolorosa St., in San Antonio, Tex. They are girls who entertain many of the 30,000 soldiers at nearby Fort Sam Houston and Randolph Field. But no bawdy house is No. 513½: it is a free clinic where a group of experts are trying a practical new solution for the old problem of venereal disease and the army. Last week an enterprising reporter from the New York Daily News named Carl...
There are five such castles in Germany; a student spends a year in each one. He must study Nazi ideology, languages, history, skiing, riding, golf, other social graces, must learn to fly. Near each castle is a girls' center whose sole function is to entertain the boys...
...prepare its defense, is more like an American than a Dutchman. Not only does he speak English, with an American accent, he plays golf and smokes Camels. He has a town house in Batavia and a country house not far away, where he and his charming Dutch wife often entertain visiting diplomats and journalists. Among their close friends are U.S. Consul General Walter A. Foote and his wife...
...rants like any Nazi about "plutocratic Jews and democrats," declared: "The greatest reason for Japan's participation in the triple alliance lies in the fact that the three signatory powers at this time of great change in the world situation have the same position, the same interests and entertain the same political views. China is not Japan's real enemy in the present incident. In reality Japan is fighting Britain and America. In the past we purposely affected ignorance of the hostility of the Anglo-Saxons because we were trying to obtain various necessaries from them...