Word: entertaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Tobias and Lenore Lonergan play the comedy leads. Tobins tells ancient jokes, postures, grimaces-but fails to entertain. Miss Lonergan, by far the superior performer, is sometimes able to make the audience believe that what it sees and hears is clever; but when she leaves the stage, apathy takes her place. Jack Cole and his troupe of dancers are occasionally interesting; more often they merely wiggle their hands and chase one another in circles...
Keys to the City. From the moment the presidential Independence touched down at the National Airport, having brought the Shah from Teheran, the President spared no pains to entertain his guest. Harry Truman greeted the young Shah heartily, bundled him off to review an honor guard, and steered him through the gauntlet of White House photographers. Together they drove in an open limousine through flag-draped streets to present the Shah with a six-inch key to the nation's capital. At a formal state banquet in the Carlton Hotel that night, Harry Truman offered him the keys...
...going through a collapse which is one of the most subtle tragedies of our time, but the courage of the English, sensing full well the shape and extent of the collapse, is awe-inspiring. My article was not designed to offend a worried and overworked host, but to entertain...
...children, invalids and pregnant women. Seats, which run down the side of the cars, are upholstered with brown leather. There is no straphanging: standing passengers hold on to bars. The cars are bright, clean and semi-soundproofed, so that conversation is possible. But there are no wall ads to entertain or annoy the traveler...
Freshman soccer players will be hoping to make it four straight game without a loss when they entertain Brown's team at noon today on the Business School Field...