Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thereafter Mr. Kellogg lunched with Ambassador Herrick, spoke with M. Aristide Briand ("a pleasant talk"), again dined at the Herrick table...
...months ago Eleutherios Venizelos, scholar, statesman, translator into modern Greek of an historical opus by Thucydides (TIME, March 22, 1926), deserted the pleasant island of Crete where he was born, and journeyed to Athens...
Relations. One's cousins, aunts, uncles, nephew's are one's relatives; with them one has relations, pleasant or otherwise. Edward Clark, the author of a homely little play, understands neither this nor a great many other things, such as how to be funny and how to be interesting when writing for the stage. The relatives with whom his drama concerns itself are Jewish and unfriendly. Old Wolfe Michaels, who is the kin they love to touch, decides that they, the other offshoots of his stock, are worthless. So does David Lubin, his elegant nephew who arrives...
Death by falling from great heights is pleasant-provided the smash-up at earth is thorough. Professor Heim of Zurich, who stated so last week, once fell off a precipice of Mount Saentis. He lit on his head and distinctly heard the thud. Stout, he recovered; introspective, he recalled his falling sensations. Delicious music soughed by his ears. He was very calm. Only after an hour from his rocky landing did he feel the pain of his broken bones...
...Everybody might have enjoyed a good time, had it not been for the rain and the heat, which combined to produce a disease called rain-tan. Even when it did not rain, there was so much moisture in the air that clothes became soaking wet in ten minutes. More pleasant were the native feasts which lasted from 11 a. m. to 3 p. m. A sample menu: crabs, lobsters, centipedes, octopus, green turtle, bonito, albacore, roast pig, chicken, duck, breadfruit, bananas, mummy apples, yams, coconut milk...