Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a pleasant bawdry about the play which shows the daring of the two authors in the face of the general censorship, but just such daring has always been the mark of Mr. Shakespeare's previous works. It is to be confessed that there are archaisms, too, about his work, his present vehicle, and his partner, Massey, seems to have tried to eliminate many of these, but without complete success. As a consequence the play drags in many places. There is too much talky-talk...
Travis B. Smythe, 26, Thornton, Tex., oil refinery chemist, found the fumes of boiling benzine "rather pleasant," not realizing that they were attacking his spleen, causing him pernicious anemia, and hemorrhages of his mucous membranes. Blood has been oozing from his mouth, nostrils, intestines, bladder; and his organs for manufacturing new, replacement red blood cells have not been functioning properly. In Baylor Hospital, Dallas, Tex., last week he borrowed blood for the 42nd time in six months. With three arm veins already destroyed by repeated blood transfusions and realizing his futility, he said: "I'd be a quitter...
Comes May and with it many delightful things, including the Pops. Each year it is a pleasant editorial privilege to welcome the occasion and to urge dancing in the streets in its honor, for here, in the glacial intimacy of Symphony Hall, is an opportunity to appease both the inner and the outer man. On idle evenings, and occasionally on busy evenings, academic footsteps will gravltate towards town, where there awaits food for thoughts and theses...
Along with the Sacred Cod and the Old North Church, the Pops are a Boston institution. When the grass on the Common is turning green, and the soda fountains do a good business in chocolate floats, the good Bostonian looks for the Pops. It is pleasant to sit at one's ease and imbibe various liquids through straws, and be entertained by a program of music...
...fickle tastes of the vagabonding undergraduate be unsatisfied with Goethe and Shakespeare and Professor Howard, he can still spend a pleasant hour between 11 and 12, by attending Professor Edgell's lecture on Venetian painting in Fine Arts Id in the New Fogg Museum. The rich colors of the Venetian masters contrast pleasantly with the finer drawing, but more restrained work of the Florentine school. Let it be remembered also that among the artists of the Venetian school are Giovanni. Bellini, Titian, Tinterette, Veronesse, Tiepolo and many others...