Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lady Auriel Dayne. Of course, that makes a lot of trouble. The piece is well-cast and furnishes an innocuous evening's entertainment. Adapted from a novel, of W. J. Locke, it suffers the fate of most such adaptations. Alan Dale: "Involved and hopelessly tedious play." Kenneth Macgowan: "Some pleasant moments...
Fifty years ago Mother Advocate found before her the "pleasant though unexpected task--one, however, none the less pleasant from its unexpectedness--of welcoming to the green fields and pastures new of college literature another aspirant for favor," and it was a very courteous greeting that she extended to the young "Magenta." If the child is father to the man the two are often strangely dissimilar. . . . But if the present paper and its editors inherit few features or characteristics from 1873 they do inherit--at least on such formal occasions as birthdays--the excellent good will of Mother Advocate...
...Charles Orisser married three times, begetting (by the first marriage) Cosmo, a creature continually at war with the world; by the second marriage Nicholas, a pleasant but somewhat inhibited, overcivilized, over-self-conscious being. When he died he left his affairs in complete confusion, and his ancestral country house, Eamor, at the mercy of John Mayne, a self-made millionaire. His third wife, Lillian, married John Mayne to save Eamor for herself and Nicholas. Mayne and Lillian, never in much accord, soon separated, the latter remaining at Eamor with Nicholas. The situation was complicated by the sudden reappearance of Cosmo...
TIMES HAVE CHANGED-Elmer Davis-McBride ($2.00). The dubious phrases " a splendid book for a train " and " would make a wonderful movie" recur to the mind in dealing with Times Have Changed. But the book deserves somewhat better than that. Mr. Davis tells his rapid, adventurous yarn in a pleasant and amusing way. If you ever feel that, even though you may have married the most wonderful girl in the world, the good old days before that event occurred had a certain flavor-if you care for stolen jewels -if, in fact, you would rather be entertained than " searched...
...near he has come to the end of "bright college years". Perhaps, too, being of a prudent disposition, he has stored away his dignified robes to keep them unsoiled for Commencement. But modesty has probably been his strongest motive: "Nobody else is doing it." Conspicuousness is not particularly pleasant; it is easier to follow the leader. And the natural leaders, the class officers, have been as hesitant as any about beginning the custom: no doubt their extra crimson decorations 'make them feel even more self-conscious...