Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Brigadier General John McCausland, 90, Confederate army officer who never surrendered; in a deep sleep at Point Pleasant, West Va. He was blamed for the burning of Chambersburg and wandered as an exile for two years, following the Civil War. Part of this time he saw military service in Mexico under Maximilian. General Grant intervened in 1867, quashed the stigma attached...
...strike-worn Passaic, N. J. (TIME, Dec. 27), Chief-of-Police Richard Zober last week had a pleasant diversion. With the commissioner of public safety and a police judge he listened to a short speech by one Michael Rusch, 23, who moved to Passaic five years ago from Alsace-Lorraine. Michael Rusch explained that he was an inventor in a small way. The officials watched his demonstration. The small box, 6 in. x 4 in. x 1 in. which he drew from his pocket was, he explained, a radio receiving set. He snowed how the aerial, a tiny wire, could...
...many types of musical comedy, ranging from the regal romance, laden with sobs, wishy-washy waltzes, and heavy footed comedians, through the blonde-chorused extravaganza with its endless array of stars, to the so-called "intimate" type, the last named is usually more dependable. Some pleasant tunes, a voice or two, a bit of fun, and a few good dancers, strung together on a thread of a plot, can fill an evening very happily. If the plot is stretched to an extreme fineness, almost all individuality removed from the music, and the good voice or two done away with, very...
Mere mention that a song called "Cinderella" occurs in the first act, will explain the plot sufficiently. "Wear Your Sunday Smile" and the title song "Judy", pleasant and innocuous, are the songs sold at the door. As for the cast, Patti Harrold, dainty and unstudied, makes a charming heroine; Robert Armstrong, obviously out of place in musical comedy, a not-so-good hero. George Meeker, Edward Allen, and Frank Beaston, as Tom, Dick, and Harry, furnish the bulk of the humor, which depends more on their own antics than the rather weak book. Mr. Beaston especially stands...
...minor poets, to escape this deep, depressing gloom which overshadowed their lives. Perhaps it was because they were almost great geniuses and the "almost" weighed too heavily upon them, imbued as they were with the subjective psychology of the movement in which they lived. Certainly they are not very pleasant reading, but they exercised an influence which affected the whole movement of at least German literature up to Richard Wagner...