Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shall I decline to whisper pleasant trifles...
...hard, for one who lived in the good old days when John, the Orangeman assuaged the undergraduate palate, to come back and find everything so changed. Not only architecturally,--there is a horrible spick-span new pile on the site of old Dane Hall with its pleasant lived buttresses, and not a trace of the moss-grown old pump remains but in the undergraduate attitude, all is bustle and commercialism, coldness, and discourtesy. I asked two young snobs with Dickey ties to direct me to the headquarters of the Graduate Day Committee. Their only reply was a shrug...
...pleasant thing to enter any joust, especially since the radio and the press make of every salute a mighty warery But when there are so many other activities in which to attempt the spectacular, it is rather unfortunate that the fall guy, college football, must be worried from his vernal sleep...
...Ames has simplified his task by employing players that are for the most part widely unknown. All of them are good and some of them are extraordinary. Ernest Lawford, the only one of whom most people have heard, is conspicuously excellent as the susceptible Lord Chancellor with the pleasant occupation?...
...risk of gaining false effects. It is interesting to compare, for instance, the political condition of the nations where general education is most common with that of nations where education has received less attention. If the figures lie, if they mis-relate cause and effect, they are at least pleasant to contemplate...