Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...received the peace award of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation (TIME, Jan. 5, FOREIGN NEWS), went to Washington. In company with Sir Esmé Howard, British Ambassador, he called at the White House and conversed in camera with the President. Their meeting was variously described: by Lord Cecil as "a pleasant visit," by a White House spokesman as "an exchange of amenities...
...shame. . . . and others of the warped lyrics of Ophelia-the Ophelia whom the Hamlet of John Barrymore demented. Her present performance gives pledge of a considerable ability in light opera if presented without so many physical restrictions. Her colleagues were moderately well equipped for other assignments. Particularly pleasant was Edgar Stehli's interpretation of the rotund Bunthorne...
...hall had its share in educating men. Many have debated just what men get from college. That they get pleasant memories everyone agrees. And if amid those memories the pictures of lecture room and class room are less distinct than memories of personalities and groups, that is human nature. Memorial Hall provided a memory. Many thousands look back to it, see its long aisle again in their mind's eye, and feel thankful for the memory...
Strangely enough, there is very little resentment of her activities. She came to Washington from Los Angeles, where she had been a prac- ticing attorney. She is young-still in her thirties-of pleasant disposition, rather attractive in appearance, without a belief that she has a divine commission as a reformer or that she is doing the most important work in the world. Inevitably she gets on well with most of those with whom she comes in contact, from officials to reporters...
Philip J. Q. Barry wrote The Youngest-the same Philip J. Q. Barry whose You and I offered such pleasant promises. His second piece deals with a threadbare theme-the turning worm...