Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hergesheimer uses words with distinction and unction. They are pleasant trophies to him, to be adroitly hung about his plot, to be celebrated, to be worshipped. There are times when I like his style immensely. There are times when I do not like it at all. Yet it is far, far better to write beautifully as Mr. Hergesheimer does, and to annoy occasionally with involved sentences or word tricks than it is not to make any pretence at fine writing at all, which is the case with a multitude of his fellow novelists. There are no finer stories in American...
...OFF?George Randolph Chester?Harper ($2.00). A pleasant picture of the cinema industry as conceived by the average fan. The hero, gifted with a winning smile, infallibility, a flat stomach and gangle shanks, sells his services to "Magnificent Pictures" at an initial salary of one dime per week and progresses in nine years to the dignity of a divorce scandal and his life-long ambition: "Isidor Iskovitch Presents." The story of his rise begins with the assembling of a $10,000-stake from seven Iskovitch uncles blessed with red beards and businesses of the varying styles to be expected from...
...Washington by the northwest, you will pass the Chevy Chase Country Club. There is a links. It was somewhere near the eleventh or twelfth hole?accounts vary?somewhere near one of these holes, on a pleasant June day, that a foursome was in progress. Part of it was on the fair green and part of it was in the foul. The part on the fair green consisted of Senators Joseph T. Robinson and Andrieus A. Jones. The part in the foul was Senators Thomas J. Walsh and John B. Kendrick. These latter had lost, or had failed to discover, their...
...minutes before the closing hour, seven p. m., the clock was stopped and the members gathered together and sang Merrilly We Roll Along, The Old Oaken Bucket, Sweet Adeline, My Country 'Tis of Thee. Speaker Gillett announced that the session was at an end, and wished the members "pleasant vacation." "And reelection!" shouted the members as the gavel fell...
...atmosphere of the Cafeteria is certainly more pleasant than that of these lunches. One is surrounded by students entirely, many of them friends and acquaintances. The noise of clashing china and shouted orders to the kitchen is not so deafening, as at a certain large restaurant in the Square, as to make conversation impossible. The food is plain, but good. I think the real reason for the unpopularity of the Memorial eating-places is that the food is plain, not that it is poor. I am afraid the sedentary life of a student takes away most of the appetite...