Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...follows the general literary pattern of small boys. He tries to chloroform the cat, gets bad marks at school, is beloved. The daughter, Adelaide, is the high spot of the Pinney family. She is gifted with a budding intelligence which begins to blossom under the beneficent influence of her pleasant if uninteresting romance with a book agent whom she finally marries. Adelaide is the Carol Kennicott, the Lulu Bett, the Leda Perrin of Poor Pinney. She gropes vaguely for something outside the stuffy household of her youth...
...Times stresses, however, one item which does not make pleasant reading on this side of the Atlantic. That is the fact that "the average attendance, even in great American cities such as Chicago, is deplorably low compared even with English country town average attendance"; it is "almost as low in the United States as it was in Ireland." That fact, if it is a fact, the Carnegie report did not divulge...
...were looking for the greatly sought after "human touch," you would find it not so much in Reiner as in his pleasant wife. Mrs. Reiner is the daughter of the Hungarian soprano, Etelka Gerster. Old timers will remember Etelka Gerster as a young soprano who sang in America for a season, and, with a measureless beauty of voice, appeared to be on the road to the greatest glory. Then?suddenly?she lost her voice and was not heard of again. It appears that she lost her voice during the illness that followed the birth of her daughter, the present...
Fact and fancy have painted a conventional picture of German student life--set in pleasant green gardens, surrounded by the aroma of bear, sausage and aged cheese. Yet out of this easy environment have come great geniuses and famous systems of education. Before the war, musicians considered a German "degree" the better part of talent, philologists founded their learning on German teachings, no scientist was a scientist without his two or three years in Germany...
Have you seen that new book, recently reviewed, which intrigues your interest? It is possible that you may find it at "The Friendly Shop". Here, in pleasant surroundings, with comfortable chairs at your disposal, you may examine and weigh the book in question...