Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaines dog-food people put out a similar national guide (for 250) listing 7,200 hotels that a dog will find acceptable, and vice versa. Even the famed Guide Michelin notes (by a dog's head with a red line through it) which places will not entertain canines...
Strict Sabbaths kept by the Pennsylvania Dutch led to "Sabbath toys" or whirligigs. To entertain the children when boisterous play was banned, soldiers, firemen, Indians and, one suspects, parodies of the neighbors, were carved in wood with paddles for arms, painted and propped on the front porch or fence posts to whirl and jiggle at the slightest whiff of a breeze. They were often intricately animated. One, called Farm Industry, made about 1880, shows a long-skirted woman churning butter while her farmer husband, in the doorway of a barn, sharpens his tools on a grindstone. It doubled...
Your connections and Education are too respectable for me to entertain any objections to them. Your Profession is that for which I have the highest Respect and Veneration. The Testimonies I have received of your personal Character and Conduct are such as ought to remove all Scruples upon that head...
...something for everybody, summer or winter. Besides such standard accouterments as a lake for waterskiing, swimming pools, a 36-hole golf course, ski slopes, riding and hiking trails, it has an ice palace, a stadium, a 2,400-seat theater where such stars as Helen Traubel and Maurice Chevalier entertain nightly, and even a zoo. It also has a variety of dining rooms and cocktail lounges, including an authentic 18th century English pub that was imported piecemeal and reassembled. Originally laid out near the turn of the century by a German count who envisioned it as an American Monte Carlo...
...butter. To what barbarian plane are we descending when we demand that it serve only the economy?" The educated housewife "will be able to judge a newspaper item more sensibly, understand a politician's speech more sagely, talk over her husband's business problems more helpfully, and entertain her children more amusingly if her brain is tuned and humming with knowledge...