Needless to say, the best ones went to senior party members, who made entertaining into a political activity.
Hostesses, party planners and etiquette authorities report that a new indifference to the old-fashioned protocol of invitations is turning entertaining into a guessing game.
Mark, Danielle and Nick have turned their love of entertaining into one of the city's exclusive nights out, charging a select group of people $40 a head to dine in their apartment.
She continued to entertain into the 1950s when she was in her late 70s and 80s.
But friends said that that was true of her as well, for she entertained well into her 90s.
Kentucky has slowly been shedding its stereotype as the battleground of hillbilly clans, an image played up in films and melodramatic newspaper accounts that entertained audiences into the 1930's, said Dr. Thomas H. Appleton, a historian at Eastern Kentucky University.
THE American heiresses, hostesses and millionaires who entertained, married into and bought castles from the English aristocracy from the 1870s to the 1930s epitomised "the breakdown of [Britain's] old aristocratic areas of influence; the loosening of rigidities...the unravelling of stuffiness".
But, in the meantime, United twice won the FA Cup and twice entertained their way into title-winning positions, as well as supplying some memorable European nights.
They tended their wounds in field hospitals inside the square, and entertained themselves late into the night with concerts and speeches, grabbing sleep when they could on cheap blankets and under makeshift tents on the muddy ground.
When two journalists turned up at his bar after midnight recently, Mr. Leku divested himself of all but one of his gold chains and entertained his guests into the morning.
