Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have chosen a finer tribute than another Freshman Hall. It is at once a splendid commemoration to one who never lived beyond the years of youth himself and it is also a substantiation of a major note in the university's aims--that of making the first year as pleasant and as satisfactory as possible. McKinlock Hall joins the distinguished company of Smith, of Gore and of Standish and like them it stands as a vital and powerful influence on the men of Harvard...
...gathering of the clan, this occasion which transforms the usually mundane areas of the Smith Quadrangle and the Standish back yard into an extra Venice Lido, is symbolic of something in fact anything. It is the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end: it is the pleasant death agony of the Freshman year and the natal travail of the Sophomore: it is a pre-examination respite and an opportunity for examination of feminine prerequisites; it is--it is the time of kingdom coming and the year of Jubilee...
Robinson & Colleagues. Heading the U. S. delegates as they climbed down from wagon-lits at Geneva last week, was a smart son of Ravenna, Ohio, Henry Mauris Robinson, 58, whose stocky form and pleasant features are best known in Los Angeles, Calif., where he is President of the First National Bank. Europeans know Mr. Robinson, however, as a subordinate member under Charles Gates Dawes of the Dawes Committee (1924) which evolved the Dawes plan...
Letting gas out of his balloon, Captain Gray began to descend. At 8,000 feet, he found himself falling faster than would be pleasant for a landing, so he adjusted his parachute, stepped out into nothingness, floated to the ground uninjured at Golden Gate, Ill., 100 miles from Scott Field (Belleville, Ill.) his starting point. His trip to the outer edge of the world and back took two and one-half hours...
...book is very pleasant reading nevertheless, though perhaps not as, good as some of his earlier work, particularly "Piracy." Many of the characters are already familiar. Venetia has the flavor of Tris March in the "Green Hat" or Shelmerdine in "The London Venture"; in Saville there is Pelham Marlay, and in the likeable Peter Serle a touch of Lord George Tarlyon. Venetia Vardon is the typical lovely creature of Michael Arlen, impossible yet plausible, stunning and elusive. At least the author has realized the truth of O. Henry's maxim that Bohemia is merely a land we do not live...