Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Minnesota blacksmith's son, Iowa farm boy, teacher-lawyer, able attorney, Spanish-War officer,* son-in-law of George Mortimer Pullman (sleeping cars), thrice a Congressman (1906-11), firm and constructive Governor,† grand-scale agriculturalist-Mr. Lowden is a pleasant, capable, 66-year-old city-man-turned-squire who stands looking at the Presidential chair with ambitious interest but with a gentlemanly restraint. He would not think of trying to climb up and sit in the chair without a genuine invitation...
...clowns can match Ringling's. Perhaps it was for this reason that the Chicago Civic Opera chose Pagliacci for the debut of Baritone Robert Ringling,** son of the late Circus Proprietor Charles Ringling, nephew of the living John. He made a stout, pleasant "Tonio," not half so loud-mouthed as his size portended. The audience liked him, liked, too, Soprano Olga Kargau, wife of a Chicago merchant, who was a new "Nedda...
Harry Ford Sinclair, although younger, stronger, bolder and far richer than Mr. Fall, had an even less pleasant time ahead. For it was upon him and his friends that the fresh suspicion had fastened-suspicion of attempted jury-tampering, the last resort of wealthy felons...
...Commissars, or, roughly speaking, Prime Minister of Russia, the post that was the late Lenin's. Born a peasant, he took a conspicuous part in the revolution. He, mild-mannered, is often seen slouching along the streets to & from the Kremlin in Moscow. He talks fluently in a pleasant manner, is always polite, extremely reserved, but he is neither orator nor scholar, as are many of his comrades. His forte is his presence of mind...
Perhaps the most pleasant memory of all is of that last stretch home from Iffley to the barge in January. Returning late from a long journey we find all deserted and quiet. From the river rises the evening fog clothing in mystery the willows on the banks. Only the rhythmical click of the oars in the row-locks breaks the silence. Eight-blades swing regularly together and softly dip. Everyone is conscious of the music fundamental to rowing