Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...making political reports on the U.S. which were sent to London over the signature, "I. Berlin." Some of these came to Churchill's attention, and when another I. Berlin, better know as a composer than a political analyst, visited London during the War, the Prime Minister decided to entertain him at lunch. There are numerous versions of the meeting, but no official account has been published. It is said that Irving Berlin departed much complimented by the trust that Churchill put in his opinions on American affairs. But the Prime Minister had somewhat less regard for the analytical abilities...
...A.A.H.P.E.R. is holding a convention in Boston this week and the proceedings in the pool are designed to both educate and entertain the delegates to this convention...
Class Day Exercise, during which the Class Orator, Ivy Orator, and Chorister will entertain, start in the afternoon of Tuesday, June 21, in the Yard's Tercentenary Theater. Also on the program will be a speaker from outside the Class, not yet selected, and Dean Bender...
Britain turned on its street lights again last week after nearly a decade of nocturnal gloom. Hoping to entertain 130,000 U.S. guests and 430,000 from Europe, the British government, which had taken over most hotels during the war, had turned almost all of them back again. Clothing was at last unrationed, but not petrol: visitors would get the 1948 allowance of 600 miles for the first two weeks, 400 for the second, plus enough gas to go to &. from their furthest destination. Meat was scarce, British cooking was as dull as ever, and prices were comparatively high...
...Robert Woods Bliss is heiress of the Castoria millions ("Children Cry For It"), and of an unassailably long Washington ancestry. She and her ex-diplomat husband quietly entertain a small, gilt-edged group of diplomats, officials and cave dwellers in their Georgetown home...