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Word: tainment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whether they seek culture or enter tainment, most literary-society meetings go smoothly, end with tea and gossip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great American Reader | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...warmed-over air. As entertainment, it boils down to a simple question of taste: Is Jolson's hoarse, good-humored style of putting over a song as acceptable to cinemaddicts now as it was eight years ago when he used it to launch an era of enter tainment in the first talkie ever made, The Jazz Singer? Best songs: I Love to Singa, You're the Cure for What Ails Me by Jolson, and My, How This Country's Changed by the Yacht Club Boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 13, 1936 | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

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