Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pillared magnificence of the Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires. . . . an interior bepeopled, bejeweled. On stage: Beniamino Gigli, Metropolitan tenor; Claudia Muzio, Chicago soprano. . . The music by Catalan! (Loreley). . . In the box with President and Mme. de Alvear, a pleasant Prince. For a further account of the season at the Teatro Colon, see Music, Page...
...From every point of view, it is lamentable that the Zionist Congress should require special police protection. It is hardly pleasant to attend a meeting patrolled by police, mounted and afoot, and to find one's sole interest personal security, because of the threats of the rowdies and hooligans, stimulated by liquor and fortified by the hope of plunder...
Norman Trevor had little to do as the father but look pleasant: no burden for him. It is even easier for Katherine Alexander (the daughter) to look pleasant. Also, she wept agreeably...
...pleasant, upon a sunny day, to motor the 26 mi. between Paris and Corbell; not so pleasant on a rainy day; still less pleasant to walk. But to swim from Corbell to Paris in the dirty brown Seine, famed swimming-pool for suicides-to swim at 2 in the morning, with the water algid, and rain stabbing the darkness...
Construction so far this year has been a pleasant surprise to most students of business. According to the statistics on contracts awarded, compiled by the F. W. Dodge Co.-a recognized barometer* of building activity-June building totaled $540,609,600, or only $7,000,000 short of the hgh monthly record established last April. This figure for June represents an increase of 9% over the preceding May, and a 40% increase over June, 1924. In the first six months of 1925, building totaled $2,660,173,700-or $338,000,000 more than for the similar period...