Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Good humor, rather than barbed and sharpened wit is, indeed, typical of the whole of this present issue. There is plenty of pleasant nonsense, sustained from the verses on the first page through the burlesque accounts of the extraordinary exploits of Colonel (and Captain) Sir Harry Hard Sauce. But unfortunately this nonsense is frequently diffuse and inconsequent--the story of the Golden Girl's transoceanic flight would profit, for example, if there were in it less wandering of the fancy and more satiric thrusts. It is, moreover, a pity that L. C. Jones' bold and effective drawings cannot be provided...
...reads the New York Times, consults with his secretary, strolls about the estate whistling and singing to himself. His voice is a rather pleasant baritone...
...fear and flattery of mortals. So Great Father thought up subservient man for their entertainment, molded him of refuse. The dying Satyrs tried in vain to teach their lore to this tribe of puny and hornless creatures. But the earth-crawlers spent their happy, ignorant days in pleasant dalliance-not only with fair fellow mortals, but with the immortals who often condescended. Thereupon utter confusion arose as to who was half-god, who three-quarters...
...with contemporary novelists to try to draw a picture of life as they see it, and for the most part they see it--darkly. For the most part, as a result, while their stories may be interesting for any one of a number of reasons, they are not always pleasant...
...volume are woven of the golden mist of day dreams, and the silken threads of a playful imagination. The characters are frankly of the sort that never were on land nor sea but only in the mind of one who is willing at least occasionally to think of how pleasant things might...