Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Frau Gertrude Frehse, potent textile industrialist, member of the House of Burgesses of the State and Free City of Hamburg. She said in a burring, rather pleasant voice: "I entered an apron factory, which I have now owned for 18 years, as an ordinary worker. Why should I tell you how long ago that was? . . . Today my husband has his business, too, but we keep all that separate from one another. I expect my two daughters to join me in my business when their education is complete; and my only son intends to enter his father's business. . . . [Smiling...
...passing the blue of the river as it mirrors the fleecy clouds, and then, having arrived at the diamond, he will stretch out on the grass--being careful to lay a coat beneath him to ward off possible rheumatism--and there lying will spend the afternoon in the pleasant contemplation of baseball, sunshine and soft turf. All this of course, if it doesn't rain. If it does--but it won't so why worry...
...Earl of Derby, 17th of his line, owner of the broad acres over which the race would be run, technical host to the dripping throng, actual host to His Majesty, looked glum, embarrassed. He had anticipated a pleasant party; heart less elements had interfered...
...Pleasant Study...
...radical alterations will take place, but the rooms will be so rearranged as to make them more pleasant and more suited to their new purpose...