Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cantabrigians; even the taxicab drivers in Harvard Square, with the exception of course of the sapient Nappy, are unacquainted with it. Hence we must state that it is a picturesque thoroughfare which leads off Memorial Drive a block beyond the John W. Weeks Memorial bridge. It is a very pleasant location for an embryonic organism, within view of capsizing single scullers on the Charles River, and amidst other renovated homes, painted like Old Gold cigarette packages, chrome, white and red. The Psychological Clinic, as it is called, contains a lecture room, reading and meeting room, waiting room, four consultation rooms...
...could leave the train at that point for stages of the Temperance Alliance, which ran to Cold Stream River, but after that the train made no stops, although it could be flagged at Reformationsburg, until it reached Perdition. At Delirium Falls, Maniac Marsh, Hangman's Hollow and several other pleasant villages passengers were thrown out without stopping the train...
...cigarette girl, who has always wanted to be a dancer, crashes through in the final act when the star falls to appear and she's really much better anyway, as we knew she would be. The same young lady is the high light of the evening, being extremely pleasant to look upon and quite in evidence most of the time. She also performs several Spanish dances, clicking castanettes and swinging about in the traditional fashion. If you're an expert on such dances you'll know more about how good they are than...
...lately become the prey of commercial enterprise; the Morris-Cowley motor-car works are nearby, while suburbanizing influences have made North Oxford as ugly as Hinksey is squalid. But it is easy to escape this ugliness and squalor, if one should see it at all. Walking is a pleasant pastime, still profitable and possible in and about Oxford. Will any man forego the walk along the Isis to Ifley, and a peep at the fine Norman village church there? Who has been so listless as to neglect the upper Isis, sampling delicacies and a good tea at the Trout...
Burges Johnson, 51, has written pleasant books for children and for grownups, too-Bashful Ballads, The Bubble Books, etc. From 1915 to 1926, he was professor of English at Vassar College (female), where his courses were well liked. Last week, he made a speech in Chicago: "There no longer are any effective cuss words. Profanity is just a greeting, an indication of closest friendship and regard." Professor Johnson is now on the payroll of Syracuse University...