Word: entertains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proud of Pennsylvania. Born in South Wales, he moved to the little town of Sharon, Pa., finished his schooling at the age of eleven and went into the steel mills to earn a life-long respect for labor and laborers (TIME, Jan. 10). Last week came his turn to entertain President and Mrs. Coolidge at the last of the Cabinet dinners of the season, and he presented to them Pennsylvanians, Worthington Scranton of Scranton and a score of such stalwarts of the state...
...Glasgow the shrewd city fathers debated hotly a similar matter: whether they would appropriate £15,000 ($72,900) to entertain the Sovereigns next July. Cried Councilman Douglas MacConaughty, striking the table with his cane: " 'Twud na' be worth it! Ha' we a brass farthin' too many in the common good funds?" His peers, more hospitable, voted the appropriation...
...Dwight Filley Davis: "Tennis is the sport I love. In fact, I met my husband, donor of the famed Davis Cup, at a tennis tournament in Switzerland. In Washington we entertain frequently; some say I am the best dressed of the Cabinet wives...
...series of five concerts has been planned. Opening on February 26 with a concert in Frye Hall, Portland, Maine, the instrumentalists will entertain at Phillips-Exeter Academy on the following afternoon. Their third concert will be on March 4, in Brattle Hall, Cambridge. This will be their only individual performance in Cambridge. Following their usual custom of giving a concert annually in New York City, the clubs will travel to the metropolis on March 5, where they will play in the Town Hall. The final performance will be in New Bedford on March...
...annual meeting of the National Head-Master's Association of Secondary Schools will take place in Cambridge this year on February 11 and 12. Plans have been made by the Harvard authorities to entertain from 60 to 80 visiting headmasters...