Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...friendship of your Government for the United States, so generously expressed, affords me abundant assurance that you will so conduct the affairs of your mission as to advance the interests common to both Governments ; and it will be my pleasant duty to cooperate most heartily to this...
...happy to accord you formal recognition in your high capacity and trust that your residence among us may be a most pleasant...
...Spaniard, are unable to return the young aspirant's love. At least the audience seemed to be perfectly familiar with such a state of affairs, and laughed and smirked as only a thoroughly sophisticated audience can. Poor Tony chooses to moon over the affair and cherishes the memories of pleasant summer days spent with his beloved Rose at a cottage rented to her by his mother...
...plead for a man because he is poor, and on the next ask mercy because he is rich and over-educated." He stated that were the death penalty abolished, there would be no possible deterrent to killing, since no criminal feared the pleasant conditions of a jail. In prison, Judge Talley said, ruffians are bedded with a comfort, fed with a largess, that they could never themselves have afforded. The long hard evenings are made bearable by cinema shows, or, should the prisoners weary of these, by free performances of well-known stage stars...
...Came Secretary of the Navy Wilbur escorting Dr. Hugo Eckener and other ranking members of the crew of the ZR-3. The President hoped they had had a pleasant trip, recalled a telegram he had sent Dr. Eckener at Lakehurst, N.J., in which he had said: "I congratulate you ... I hope that your stay in the United States will be enjoyable and that the notable services you have rendered in bringing over this airship will be a matter of satisfaction and pride to you throughout your life...