Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days when it is customary to expound the defects of the rising generation it is pleasant to find that youth often justifies itself in a quite unexpected manner to a quite unexpected degree, and confirms the suspicion of some of its teachers that it has rather more than its share of talent, ability and courage. A striking example of this has been given by the Harvard Dramatic Club, which entirely against the advice of many of the elders who were consulted decided to put on the stage Andreyev's "The Life of Man", and did so with more success than...
...middle of the first act a suspicion of the outcome begins to dawn upon you, and you settle back in your seat and affably await the end of the third act and the inevitable. At the appearance of Jackson upon the scene, you unconsciously nod in greeting, and the pleasant thought comes to you, "What is comedy without its omniscient butler?" Knot after amusing knot is tied and untied--our hero, Carter, falls out of a passing love for Marcia and into love of a somewhat more enduring kind for Rosalie with the help and hindrance of the aforesaid Jackson...
Again the Jewetts repeat themselves, this time from less worthy motives than usual. "The Cassilis Engagement" is a pleasant English comedy; it has proved its value as an entertainer by a phenomenal run of six weeks at the Copley last year; beyond that, and the neatness with which it fits the company, there seems to be little reason why it should be preserved in their repertorie...
...Turk this is a very pleasant prospect, but not so happy a one for the million and more exiles who are to be transported, nor for the lands where these peoples are to be settle. What if, at the end of two or three centuries the United States should decide the country was burdened with more of a certain race than it could support, and found it advisable to ship the offending citizens to some other continent? The plan might be successful if a massacre were the only possible alternative; the world may freeze first. Now, however, the problem...
...purpose of this communication is not to urge the "brave young men of our great Universities to enter politics", it is to point out the silliness of airing socialistic reforms or conservative doctrines in a comfortable room with pleasant people by man who, when he has graduated, will say. "I'll take this good job that is offered me now--and go into politics later--sometime--perhaps...