Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chain symbol or the magic, "cum," "magna" or "summa," which attracts undergraduates to excel in such a secondary commodity as book learning is not important. The results are the same, and the urge inspired by the same ideals. At any rate Phi Beta Kappa finds itself in the rather pleasant position of having a wealth of candidates when practically every other activity in the College uses every known method except the baseball scout system to gather the innocents into the told...
...professional performances, but not a trace of it here. In fact it is a little too much when both male and female choruses enunciate so clearly that even the patter is distinct. But it is Since, the lyvles are so essential a part of these plays. It is most pleasant to be able to pick them up without effort, and with this in mind the producer has apparently put great stress upon this phase...
...general appearance the famous Charles Dickens, who saw him in 1842, wrote of his "mild and pleasant appearance" and his "remarkably unaffected, gentlemanly agreeable manners" and added "in his whole carriage and demeanor he became his station singularly well...
...health value of singing. Nothing develops the lungs as singing does. Sing at your work and avoid consumption. . . ." It seemed to most observers probable that Mme. Reggio had made her climb more for purposes of publicity than to "impress the health value," of her profession. Yet it was pleasant to reflect that Mme. Reggio had spent effort and years in developing her lungs so that she might sing the better; and that she had now achieved congratulations for singing so long and hard that her lungs were phenomenally good. Also, it seemed sad that having strengthened her lungs, Mme. Reggio...
...scenario-writing prize, comes to Hollywood, is besieged by unscrupulous women who want him to get them in the movies and is finally permitted to claim the hand of his own true sweetheart. Those in whom a severe spanking might cause concussion of the brain will be thrown into pleasant convulsions by the crudities of this noisy, dirty farce. Helen Baxter was the only member of the cast who acted her part...