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Word: pleasant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Specialty features this week are rather pleasant. Clark and McCullough, the sere and tested vandeville team, are largely responsible for it with their movietone comedy. The Publix arrangement "Topsy Turvy Town" is also a harmless show presented against a futuristic background. The left end from "Good News", if we remember the face does some clever hoofing in front of the ponies. This part of the performance is above the average...

Author: By A. G. C., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/1/1928 | See Source »

...second place if the "House" is used primarily as a social center it will not appeal to club men on the basis and it will be necessary to urge athletes and socially prominent undergraduates to join. Its true function is above merely a basis of pleasant companionship although that will naturally enter in as a result of the higher ideals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Rand Believes That Only One "House" Should be Established Residents Should be Chosen on Grades | 11/27/1928 | See Source »

...little university town of Goettingen in Hanover is quiet, sleepy and very pleasant. There are drowsy promenades shaded by lime trees. There are old moss-carpeted ramparts. There are book shops and crooked cobbled streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Nobel Goettingen | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...Mascali at the time of its destruction was Signor Giovanni Giurati, Minister of Public Works. His valises packed, he was quite prepared to leave the no longer pleasant island of Sicily. But a telegram from Il Duce informed him that he must direct the work of salvage. Efficiently Signor Giurati assumed the role of St. George, valiantly and often vainly fought the dragon with dynamite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Etna | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...Chicago a pleasant Aida made her debut at Civic Opera, She was Soprano Hilda Burke, 24, of Baltimore, who had wanted to be a trained nurse but succumbed to parental objection, concentrated on singing as a substitute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Music Notes, Nov. 19, 1928 | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

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