Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Angeles or Manhattan he goes to his office and spends a few hours with his railroads, his villages, cliffs, painted motor buses, trolley-cars, skyscrapers, his coupons, clerks, cigars and the polite young men who look after his money and call him "Sir." It is pleasant to feel that these things now largely take care of themselves. It is pleasanter to be Maecenas than Croesus...
...Artiste, a symphonic poem for violin and orchestra. Josef Szigeti was the soloist, drew ripe measure of grave, cool beauty to paint the mood of a creator, peaceful as a flower at first, but bruised and beaten by a mocking Success back into a wiser contentment. Critics found it pleasant, a little sentimental. They commended Conductor Willem Mengelberg for introducing it, and for giving Bloch's Israel Symphony, that strong, honest portrayal of the suffering of the Jews, bright with savagery, sensual, despairing...
...candidates will probably be less than 20,000 ballots. Onetime (1914-15) Governor Walsh, Irish-Catholic, Wet, is the most potent vote-getter in the commonwealth. His strength lies in Boston (outside of Back Bay) and in the large mill towns. Senator Butler echoes "Coolidge and Prosperity," and sounds pleasant to wealthy manufacturers, to rock-bound farmers, to red-brick- and-green-shutter folk from the Berkshire Hills to Cape Cod. Senator Butler has been caricatured as beseeching Heaven to send the President and Mrs. Coolidge to Northampton, to cast their votes. They expect...
Cognoscenti complain as cognoscenti will. All is not flawless at the Metropolitan Opera House. There are many weaknesses. Excellent ensembles, a good German wing, equal to pre-War times, a wise choice of novelties to please the epicures?these are pleasant, surely, but then there exists a tendency to quantity production, to wear out the orchestra and singers: there is no French wing to speak of, no chance for the American artist. He makes no excuses, that imperturbable impresario with his thumbs in his armpits. But he knows, and others know, that for such a polyglot community there...
...take your theatre-going too seriously, "The Wisdom Tooth" will prove a pleasant and innocuous entertainment. Besides, you may join with the rest of the audience in the sensation, without the reality of three hours' consecutive and brilliant cerebration