Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what you hear is very disappointing and you feel instinctively 'that must be a horrid man,' you may be quite sure that the speed is wrong. Slow it down until you feel you are listening to an amiable old gentleman of 71 with a rather pleasant Irish voice, then that is me. All other people whom you hear at other speeds are impostors, sham Shaws, phantoms who never existed...
...Raskob, vice president of the General Motors Corp., had audience with Pope Pius XI and received a special benediction. A Knight of Malta, Mr. Raskob had contributed to the Hospital of the Infant Jesus in Rome, favorite mission of the Pope. Said Mr. Raskob: "His Holiness was particularly pleasant...
...significant" or "important" novel, but the fantastic story will keep even a very particular reader smiling through a pleasant three or four hours...
...people will cry "myth," while 100,000,000 will cry: "Isn't it grand!" Mr. Mazur takes prosperity for granted, though he admits that it contains a few dark spots. Keen in his own perceptions, he writes in a style that is easy and pleasant to grasp. He gives this booming country better advice than can be found in a fifty-foot shelf of the works of eminent boosters...
...modern dress. Even if you saw the Dramatic Club's effort last spring, take a chance on this, this is better. A bit overdone, but pleasant...