Word: pleasant
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...titular church. (Cardinals are, first of all, parish priests in the diocese of Rome of which the Pope is Bishop.) The del Popolo church is just within the northern gate of Rome through which Mussolini's Black Shirts marched over a year ago. Above it are the pleasant gardens of the Pincian Hill. Near it are the Hotel de Russie, of restaurant fame, and Luther's Roman home...
Owen Johnson is thoroughly of New York City. He likes it. He likes its people even though he may recognize their charming weaknesses. He enjoys its clubs and its life. He will impress you, when you chance to meet him, as a pleasant, somewhat detached gentleman who looks at life with the eyes of a reporter, yet lives, himself?a most difficult feat, and one which those cursed with too much sense of humor cannot accomplish. Yet there is no denying Mr. Johnson's sense of humor ?witness The Varmint, The Tennessee Shad, the later Skippy Bedelle...
...lower Hudson, the planes would fly between Newport and New Haven, connecting with fast New York trains. Instead of a painful and lengthy journey from Newport to Wickford, Wickford to Wickford Junction by train, Wickford Junction to New Haven by boat, passengers would have a more-or-less pleasant 50 minutes in the air. The Aeromarine Airways, now working successfully in Florida, would be the operators of the line...
These are the more ambitious features, which I have mentioned in what is necessarily a rapid review. There are many other pleasant and witty titbits." "A Sad Case" of Mr. K. O. Rockcracker, who was dismissed from the chair of Biblical Geology in Jehovah University, is a delightful little ironic sketch. "The Week" and "Paternalism" and the "Theory of Democracy" are so like serious New Republic editorials that it robs them of the zest and humor which make the rest of the number so attractive. And yet in their way they are the best parodies...
Clement Robinson: A Handful of Pleasant Delights. A collection of ballads and poems reprinted line for line from the 1854 edition...