Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...invited. To Swampscott buzzed limousines bearing many factotums of the Brotherhoods of Locomotive Engineers and rail-road Trainmen, faithful pundits of the Order of Railway Conductors and the Associated Railroad Yard-men of America, hardy potentates of the International Association of Steam Fitters and Plumbers. Mr. Coolidge had a pleasant word for those he knew, His decisive action in the Boston police strike caused some of the Union leaders to style themselves his "friendly enemies...
...Argentine at the ranch of Poloist Jack Nelson. A special train, preceded by a pilot train, whisked him 700 miles across the pampas to Mendoza. There the Prince changed to a special train of the Trans-Andean Railways, was drawn across the divide by two engines, arrived in the pleasant greenery of Santiago di Chili. He began at once to accomplish five gala days, spiced with Chilean ardor...
...even a way with words. But she has always had brains, hard and vigorous, if not very subtle, and has always exhibited and admired intelligent forcefulness. Deliver her from Average People! Two years ago, at the age of 64, examining life as she does for "strong" ideas whether pleasant or unpleasant, she fastened upon glandular rejuvenation and wrote that gold mine in pseudoclinical vulgate, Black Oxen. Now comes the ductless glands, another "strong" idea and similarly demonstrated, if you care for that sort of thing...
...ladies who happened to hire an Italian castle. The tale told of their blossoming under the soft suns of Italy. It was the type of thing that the drama, with its imperative demands for action, recaptures uneasily. All the recapturing possible on the stage has been effected, with a pleasant but not particularly engrossing result...
...such a pity for men that his instant reaction to an outrageous crime was sorrow for the criminals? Various comments to some such effect were; made by his friends, but strangest of all was one supplied by an item printed in his paper just before his body exchanged its pleasant room on Lake Shore Drive for the suburban field where it will rest forever?an item that revealed something of the terrifying diversity, the proximities, the contrasts, of the human spectacle which had been so long and so intimately under the observation of Victor Lawson. The item, a very inconspicuous...