Word: entertaining
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Since then, the Chinese have given some signs that they want to return to normal diplomatic behavior. Their embassies, which for months remained forbiddingly closed to guests, have begun to entertain once more. The Chinese embassy in Moscow has imported a cook from Hupeh province whose spiced cabbage and chicken receives favorable mention on the diplomatic dinner circuit. Recent European guests (no Americans have been invited) reported that the atmosphere becomes somewhat stiff after dinner, when each visitor is seated individually with a Chinese and subjected to a quiz on such issues as Soviet intentions in Europe...
...pleasant Sunday afternoon aboard H.M.S. Beagle, outward bound from Plymouth in 1831 on a scientific voyage around the world, Robert FitzRoy, her captain, would entertain his officers with readings from the Bible. A painting of such an event is one of the illustrations in Alan Moorehead's book. Depicted as a drab civilian among the scarlet naval persons present, the ship's naturalist, Charles Darwin, also clutches a Bible. The Beagle's Bibles contained an annotation dictated by the Anglican Archbishop Ussher, firmly stating that the Creation began promptly at 9 a.m., Oct. 23, 4004 B.C. After...
Yovicsin's job is to lure various organizations to Suffolk Downs and to persuade them to entertain friends and visitors there. Unless one frowns on business, and I doubt that Harvard officials do, this position is certainly above reproach. But our football coach will probably come in contact with some gamblers, and perhaps Harvard fears that in a moment of weakness he will fall prey to their evil instincts...
Discovering where the laughs came from is the undeclared aim of this biography. Lahr himself professed not to know. "Put me in a jockstrap and if I entertain people for two hours-it's a good show," he once said. "I'm not an artist, I'm in business. If it's a hit, that's all I care about." Another time, speaking about his dramatic abilities, he said, "All I know is how to do it. I can't articulate." In hopes of doing better, John Lahr, his son and biographer, has endeavored...
Yovicsin's new position is involved with promotion. His job would be to convince businessmen and other organizations that Suffolk Downs is a good place to entertain visitors and friends. He said Tuesday that it was a "perfect activity" for him, but there were indications yesterday that if he were given an ultimatum, by Harvard to choose one or the other, he would remain a coach...