Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attended college and play instruments, it is a band that would please swingsters and waltzers alike. COLLEGIATE DIGEST is particularly proud to be the nation's first publication to honor these men of note in this manner and we only wish we could get them all together to entertain you at a super-deluxe swing session...
...best-selling Travel Diary of a Philosopher, fees reaching as high as $1,000 a lecture, and praise such as Glenn Frank's: "Keyserling may turn out to be a John the Baptist of a new Western civilization." On that trip hostesses received printed instructions on how to entertain the worldly prophet: 1) rooms should be cool; 2) a supper should be served after each lecture; 3) champagne should be provided; 4) oysters should be served, but no vegetables except mashed potatoes; 5) pretty young women should be present. Due to arrive in Manhattan by New Year...
...Blumenthal, who straightway became a Papal Count by appointment of Benedict XV. In Rome the Pecci-Blunts own the ancient Palazzo Malatesta at the foot of the Capitoline. Their country house in Tuscany is the Villa Reala de Marlia, world-famed for its hedge carvings. In Paris they entertain with suitable splendor at the 18th-Century Hotel de Ligne. In the U. S. the Countess' mission is that of a torch bearer for Italian...
...four years ago several young matrons at the Women's Club in suburban Maplewood, N. J. fell to talking about this problem, a great worry to many a U. S. mother who has observed the intense preoccupation of U. S. moppets with the cheap and sensational entertainment provided for them by films, newspaper strips and particularly the radio. Said brown-haired, brown-eyed Mrs. Dorothy L. McFadden, mother of James & Jean and wife of James L. McFadden, export consultant and amateur sketcher: ''Why can't we produce decent entertainment ourselves?" The answer was a series...
...perspective are tools, not ends: they must be used, not worshipped. No writer wants his story to be merely schoolteacherish grammar. No painter wants his picture to be merely good architectural perspective. Both writer and painter do have a common purpose: the writer, to amuse, to shock, to entertain the reader; the painter, to amuse, to shock, to entertain the galleryite: both in-tend to jar your emotions. A fiction writer, to stir your guts, will split any infinitive that gets in the way. A painter, for the same reason, may draw his horizon line perpendicular, and scatter vanishing points...