Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jane Houston, as the secretary, goes to the opposite extreme, with rather too much vigor; the other parts except that of Drew, the detective, are minor, but unusually colorful. Jackson, the too-amiable operative, and Jeanette, Miss Stockbridge's maid, have little to say, but they make a definitely pleasant impression, while Pay-son, the dubious man servant and "The Trouble Hunter" from the phone company have distinct characters in spite of their infrequent appearances...
...publication of four new books during the month of January was announced yesterday by the Harvard University Press. The books are: "Bits of Harvard History," by Samuel F. Batchelder '93; "A Handful of Pleasant Delights," edited by Hyder E. Rollins '16; "Harvard Excavations at Samaria 1908-1910," by George A. Reisner '89, David G. Lyon '01, and C. S. Fisher; and "Early Economic Thought," edited by Professor Arthur E. Monroe...
...Handful of Pleasant Delights" is an accurate, carefully edited re-print of a collection of Tudor poetry originally published in 1566. The first edition was entirely lost and modern reprints are rare...
...Robert Gray Allen of Andover, Chairman of the Dinner Committee; Francis Lowell Barton of Boston, Chairman of the Jubilee Advisory Committee; Marion Adolphus Cheek of Berkeley, California, Chairman of the Smoker Committee; George Douglass Debevoise of New York City, Editorial Chairman of the Blue Book; Hershel Hobart MacCubbin of Pleasant Hills, Maryland, Chairman of the Foreign Students Committee; John James Maher of Bridgeport, Connecticut, second Vice-Chairman of the Dinner Committee; Edward Walker Marshall of Portland, Maine, Business Chairman of the Blue Book; and Channing McGregory Wells of Southbridge, Vice-Chairman of the Dinner Committee. These men will meet soon...
...bookshop is an insidious thing. Its portals are as inviting as the jaws of a trap. The unwary passerby is almost irresistibly lured into its mellow interior, perhaps to while away a pleasant hour in contemplation of its variegated shelves, perhaps only to escape a sudden shower. There is so agreeable an absence of obligation. No one feels the least demand upon his purse when he enters a bookshop, any more than when he strays into a friend's library. He means only to "look around," feels a. certain pride in assuring the unobtrusive salesman that he is hardly...