Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although Miss George's performance is one of the most expertly irresistible of the season, almost an equal credit must go to Bruce McRae. He is, perhaps, the champion leading male of our theatre. Never did his intensive enthusiasm, his rapidity of speech and his pleasant personality better fit a role...
...that Breakspear quit the monastery of which he was Abbot in a pleasant Province, and proceeded, as Cardinal-Legate, to the rough untutored northlands of Denmark, Norway and Sweden...
Roscoe Pound's decision not to accent the Presidency of Wisconsin University but to remain at Harvard as Dean of the Law School is a decision which will be gratifying to Harvard men. It should please many other people. For it is always a pleasant thing to see a man refuse more money and higher rank because he knows that he has already found a job worth doing. And beyond that, Dean Pound's decision cannot fail to add prestige to the profession of the teacher...
...three hours of pleasure and comfortable writing at dictation. The examined becomes the amanuensis, while roommates or friends supply a polished and complete examination via the air route. The ingenious student of Strasbourg little realizes that he has transformed the only trying period of collegiate existence into a few pleasant hours of scribbling...
...play is a pleasant little trifle, dealing easily with the simple lives of the farm folk of Devonshire, to whom habit complexes and six expressions are charmingly unknown. The difficulty of finding enough American actors and actresses qualified to handle the Devonshire dialect, even with modifications, is evident in spots throughout the performance, but in general the acting of the cast is finished and convincing. Walter Edwin, as "Churdles Ash", the hired man, is particularly to be praised, even though Mr. Phillpotts has cast his character in a form which makes it impossible for him to converse save in epigrams...