Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lunched in Manhattan with four clerical organizations; said the religious forces of the world constitute the most hopeful resource of humanity. Rev. Arthur J. Brown discussed eloquently the pleasant relationships between U. S. and Sweden, world peace...
Especially pleasant is the sympathetic view taken towards the theatre and its literature in the different years when actors and producers were struggling to break with those conventions of their art which may most conveniently be seen at the present revival of "The Two Orphans," which illustrates in all except the acting and the scenes (which are not of the gas-light era) the variety of play popular in the transition from the Old Drama to the New, with its soliloquies, asides, mingling of individual and type characters dependent for effect on strong contrast, the brandy bottle, unnatural and strained...
...three days, beginning today, Chicago is to be host to 1,000 Harvard men, here to attend the twenty eighth meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs. It is pleasant to find a significance in this entertainment by the lusty young western city of representative of America's oldest and most distinguished university. The guests who come to Chicago today can claim an academic tradition 201 years older than Chicago as a city...
...acting, to dwell on a more pleasant subject, is entirely good. Those who saw some genius in the great hulking, tobacco chewing mule skinner of the "Covered Wagon," and later the king of the underworld in the "Hunchback of Notre Dame," will let his presence in the cast alone for a be the multitude of sins. If you have never seem him shaved and in the conventional after 6 o'clock dinner jacket it would be almost worth the chance to look. Then there is a hero who first gained fame because of a powerful jaw which looks well under...
Purely for relief, it is pleasant to turn from Mussolini to Italy herself, to remember that Mussolini must find his justification among Italians. The current World's Work points out that, in touting Mussolini, the part played by tradition and sentiment in raising the hope of a new Empire, has been overlooked. It is only the extraordinary methods of the dictator that distinguish him from his predecessors. His ambitions for Italy are the same. And it is doubtful whether, despite his success as a popular colossus, his feet are not of the same clay as theirs...