Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Walter de la Mare has written an exquisite story of a midget. It is not a pleasant story, for pitiful stories are not pleasant stories. And the "Memoirs of a Midget" is very and sincerely pitiful. No one has written the life of Zip the "What Is It" to whom Barnum gave fame. Dickens gave a name, and the public gave the vital interest of its perpetual indecorum. But now that Zip is dead and the fellowship of freaks takes on the vestments of usual mourning the need of such a memoir becomes less remote. Zip should be perpetuated...
While Wilhelm earned his nickname "the Route Kaiser" by traveling and philandering about Europe, his dutiful consort busied herself at Berlin or Potsdam with the preparation of some "pleasant surprise" to divert him on his return...
...second time since the wreck of the Shenandoah (TIME, Sept. 14), the dirigible Los Angeles rose from her mooring mast at Lakehurst, N. J., and headed south-east against an April wind. The early excursionists in Asbury Park and Point Pleasant saw her pass, a silver minnow loitering in the pale sky, and they looked at one another and talked stupidly about bolts of lightning, picturing the silver skin gutted and men blown down the night like seeds. Captain G. W. Steele Jr., however, and Lieutenant Commander Charles M. Rosendahl, who flew the ship, indulged in no such morbid associations...
...eyes were the alert grey eyes of an up-to-date New York business man. His hands were white, soft and well cared for. When he spoke his voice was unusually pleasant, his accent that of a cultivated and polished New Yorker...
Light and Pleasant...