Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sold her birthright for a mess of pottage." The jury refused to convict her. The Duke Steps Out (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Nonsense about a young student in a California co-educational university who wins the world's light-heavyweight fisticuffing championship and the girl he loves, is made pleasant and almost credible by the acting of William Haines and by Joan Crawford's handsome legs. Best shot: the crowd at the ringside the night Duke beats Frisco...
Gracious were the U. S. representatives, victory being the mother of magnanimity. Said their statement: ". . . never questioned the sincerity of Sir Hugo . . . not at all unsympathetic toward his desire . . . insisting upon property right . . . negotiations . . . uniformly pleasant . . . ability. . . integrity . . . greatest respect...
...Even when we have got near to them, our difficulties have only begun, for an elephant is not a pleasant beast. Once when I was walking through a bank of bushes my outstretched hand hit something that didn't feel like wood. It wasn't; it was the side of an elephant! I couldn't get out of that place fast enough...
...handling anything heavier than pens and pencils. . . . The authorities are very strict in granting permits only to those who can stand the comparatively hard labor involved by work on farms." Clearly this astute policy keeps pesky little "pale faces" off Brazilian streets where they might cause resentment, insures a pleasant welcome and gainful employment to big, brown, burly Japs willing to work and multiply in rustic obscurity...
...Academic. "There was not a soul in the boxes and not one woman in the house. In all, three hundred baldpates. It was funereal." The lecture tour was salvaged by substituting a laudatory address on South America. The original lectures now appear in book form to make pleasant if somewhat disappointing reading. From the mass of anecdote that has accumulated about the figure of the famed 16th Century Gascon, Lecturer France has gleaned the few bits that seem authentic and pieced them into the patchwork of Rabelais' vagabond life. Scholar and classicist, Francois Rabelais nevertheless defied Hippocrates, the Church...