Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fairly quick to imitate. Byron Cutcheon's "Requiem for the Poet" contains three good lines among a number of bad ones. "April Fool!" by Stuart Ayers is the best contribution in verse, disposing the manners of the day in four effective quatrains printed zigzag down the page. "My Pleasant Celia" is agreeable and neatly versified...
Ishbel Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair. One of the noted philanthropists of Great Britain, Lady Aberdeen has shared her husband's pleasant duties as Governor General of Canada and his exacting labors as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. He is senior peer of Scotland. She, Ishbel Maria Majoribanks Gordon, is the mother of two sons and one daughter. Her life-has been spent in good works, notably in services for Canadian women. She belongs to many clubs, such as the Onward and Upward Association, the National Health Association of Ireland, Lady Aberdeen has been President of the International Council...
Slightly more pleasant than Mr. Tasker, though not really so different psychologically, was his vicar, the Rev. Hector Turnbull. Days at the vicarage, all identical, were punctuated by the Rev. Hector's heavy and regular meals, heavy and regular tread, heavy and regular sermons, tooth troubles and grumblings over money. Occasionally, the Rev. Hector noticed the second maid's ankle. Occasionally, he went away to a dentist. That ankles and teeth were connected in the life of a churchman with so proud a bearing as the Rev. Hector's, none would have guessed; and when the Rev. Hector fell heavily...
...nature do much to strengthen intercollegiate bonds, and in these days when petty jealousies and rivalries are often magnified to formidable proportions, only cordial relations can lay the ghost of extra-mural comment. Princeton's hospitality is but another expression of that unbroken friendship which has long characterized the pleasant relations of the two universities...
These two pleasant ladies, writers of distinction and popularity, are in the real spirit of New England. It was Miss Abbie Brown who spoke for the writers of Boston at the recent dinner given there in honor of Miss Amy Lowell, about to sail for England to deliver lectures at various universities and elsewhere. It was a New Englander's speech that Miss Brown gave, and when Miss Lowell rose to reply, her reply was in terms of New England: two poems, one of a New England garden; one, the famous and beautiful Lilacs. Here are three women...