Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farm, their friend Carl Van Doren gave them curt advice: "Pave it." Instead they let their next-door neighbor work it; now the place pays. Around home Gould is a relaxed, ruminative, cigarette-puffing host, lets his handsome, smartly dressed wife do much of the talking. The Goulds entertain simply, serve "a" cocktail, and, like a good Journal family, live well within their combined salaries of around $75,000 a year...
...There he has lived, ranting in a mixture of Portuguese and his fluent French, or composing quietly in a corner with a phonograph blaring in his ear. When visitors come, he can be rude ("I hate singers," he once bellowed at one he had just met), or he may entertain them for hours, playing records or showing them how he can sound three different rhythms all at once-with hands, feet and mouth...
...earn $25,000 a year, do not entertain eleven persons a week, provide no music lessons, and have only $5,000 socked away...
Someone in your family plays a musical instrument (the odds are it's the piano, but it could be the violin, clarinet or saxophone). You entertain eleven guests a week for dinner, lunch, bridge or the weekend, and you figure it costs you nearly a thousand dollars a year...
...entertain people, give them something," Fred Allen cracked, in his disillusioned way. Vacationing on Cape Cod this week, Fred might well recall that crack: a giveaway program had belted Allen all the way down to No. 38 on the Hooperating, moved all the way up into the No. 2 spot itself...