Word: entertaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Good Little God. In Mukden, capital of the great northern Province of Manchuria, Governor-General Chang Hsueh-Liang had sufficient respite from war last week to entertain in sumptuous fashion that good little god, the Panchen Lama or "Living Buddha," devoutly venerated by millions of Chinese Buddhists...
...meals of his guests? Then if a man has a guest at each meal he eats in a House, he needs only to be present five times a week in the dining room. His friends can either pay him for the meal they eat with him there, or else entertain him themselves at some other time. That leaves 16 meals a week to eat where he chooses or where he must...
...reads melodramas for education. They are meant to entertain one. And, in the final analysis, "The Ginger Cat," despite its faults, was read through to the finish merely because it entertained this reviewer...
...College and Sheff, still centers around the word "Yale," and the old succession of affections--university, class, society--still holds. There is no reason to believe, therefore, that the residential halls will injure a tradition which has withstood greater changes before. Yale is too vital a being to entertain these thoughts as even remote contingencies. --Yale News
...bobbins which will dig into red clay of the submerged plateau and hold the seadrome from drifting. By next fall and before Bermuda's 1930-31- tourist season begins Mr. Armstrong expects to have the Langley completed and anchored in place, ready to receive tourist planes and to entertain travelers on man's newest conquest of an element. As the operation of the Langley makes money, he will (and he has the money in provision to do so) construct eight similar seadromes to be strung 375 miles apart between the 35th and 40th parallels, north latitude, between Long...