The clown amused the children. The clown amused. The clown's antics amused the children. The little children amused easily. That movie bored me silly.
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The audience had come not to be entertained but to judge. The policeman got a confused, funny look on his face, and he had answered kind_of politely,`` Now, look_here, lady: I know you got to entertain these kids and all. The only current event they 're staging is the big show at the Stadium_Nov. 25, when Danny will entertain thousands of underprivileged kids. When the Achaeans entertained Wednesday last at their annual Carnival masquerade_ball, Miss_Margaret_Pierson was chosen to rule over the festivities, presented at the Muncipal_Auditorium and chosen as her ladies in waiting were Misses Clayton_Nairne, Eleanor_Eustis, Lynn_Chapman, Irwin_Leatherman of Robinsonville, Miss. and Helene_Rowley. They assured him that they did not expect or need to be entertained. A back-yard picnic with grilled frankfurters and a selection of frankfurter trimmings is a fine way to entertain guests this summer. I decided I hated the Pedersen kid too, dying in our kitchen while I was away where I could watch, dying just to entertain Hans and making me go_up snapping steps and down a drafty hall, Pa lumped under the covers at the end like dung covered with snow, snoring and whistling. Mr. and Mrs._Anderson were entertained at dinner on Sunday by Mr. and Mrs._Frank_Coulson, of Fairless_Hills. Mrs._H._E._Godwin will entertain the members of her Book_Club at her home on Tuesday. ( Several times recently I have wondered whether shows were being staged for the sake of the script or just to entertain the audience with the spectacle of scenery being shifted right in_front_of their eyes. Mrs._William_H._Merner, of Drexel_Park, entertained at a luncheon at her home on Wednesday. Their Majesties, The Queen of Carnival and The Queen of Comus, have jointly issued invitations for Shrove_Tuesday evening at midnight at which time they will entertain in the grand ballroom of a downtown hotel following the balls of Rex and Comus. It made him pretty hot_under_the_collar, after the idea Miss_Sis had given him, to be told by Miss_Kiz that her holy spa was all reserved for this summer and next, if you please, and that_much as she regretted it, they would be unable to entertain Mrs._Robards and the children. He really crucified him. She will entertain at a Vieux_Carre restaurant at 1 o'clock in the early afternoon. It is a kind_of justice, too, that it should originate_in London 's Royal_Albert_Hall, where, traditionally, the loudest, if_not the greatest, performers have entertained the thousands it will accommodate( RCA_Victor_LM 2454,$ 4.98). We will gladly entertain your young and give them proper living_quarters, in_return for their help in running our fusion_reactors. Brig._Gen. and Mrs._Robert_F._McDermott will entertain at a black_tie dinner Wednesday, May 3, in the Officers' Club at the Air_Force_Academy. Mr. and Mrs._Frederick_Heinze are entertaining Mr._Walter_Lehner, of Vienna; Mr._Ingo_Dussa, of Dusseldorf, Germany, and Mr._Bietnar_Haaek, of Brelin. Mr. and Mrs._L._DeForest_Emmert, formerly of Drexel_Hill, and now of Newtown_Square, are entertaining Mr. and Mrs._Ashman_E._Emmert, of Temple, Pa.. Mrs._Edward_App will entertain the members of her Book_Club on Tuesday. Another debutante, Miss_Virginia_Richmond, will also be the honoree this Wednesday at luncheon at which Mrs._John_Dane, will be hostess entertaining at a downtown hotel. The oyabun was entertaining a group of dignitaries, the secretary said, businessmen from Tokyo for_the_most_part, and Kayabashi wished to show them the mission. Mrs._A._Voorhees_Anderson entertained at a luncheon at her home, on Monday. In the following year her father undertook to give a course in Hebrew theology to Johns_Hopkins students, and this brought to the Szold house a group of bright young Jews who had come to Baltimore to study, and who enjoyed being fed and mothered by Mamma and entertained by Henrietta and Rachel, who played and sang for them in the upstairs sitting_room on Sunday evenings.