Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nearly grown up play; for the enjoyment of a pleasant status in late adolescence with a minimum of toil and discipline, delaying the serious work of life; for participation in an enchanting variety of congenial activities--athletics in particular--and the making of "desirable" contacts and friendships...
...pleasant reaction which the settlement of the Italian war debt has provoked in this country there is a certain assurance of hopefulness. For the walls of the few have been lost in the applause of the many...
Meanwhile the Duchess* of York, busying herself less royally, set about to direct a score of thick-sinewed titans who swarmed into White Lodge, the pleasant ducal residence at Richmond Park. Under her watchful eye the defter titans packed costly gold and silver plate, shifted it into panting moving vans already piled with trunks and boxes and chugged away...
...small Italian resort glowed at the following tribute from the daughter of Frederick Ebert, late saddle-maker-President of Germany, and her husband, Doktor Wilhelm Jaenicke, son of the Kaiser's one-time bootmaker and now an attaché of the German Foreign Office. "Your hotel is so pleasant that we have temporarily forgotten that Hindenburg is President in Germany...
Vivienne Segal sings most of the songs, recalling for many the pleasant afternoons and evenings when she was in Oh Lady, Lady. Ritz Brothers, three of them, vaudeville favorites, add absurdities...