Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Audiences like Deanna Durbin for her negative virtues almost as much as for her positive good points. Negatively, she pleases by her lack of the arch, smarty, claphands affectations which have blighted so many Hollywood juveniles in the bud. Positively, she has a clear, appealing soprano, a plump and pleasant face, a buxom 14-year-old physique. In 100 Men & a Girl, as the daughter of an impoverished trombonist (Adolphe Menjou) who is trying vainly to get a job in Stokowski's orchestra, Miss Durbin finds her way without pathetic bumbles through some pretty sentimental sequences. She collects...
...heavyset, silver-haired, pleasant man of 65 whose hobbies are golf and a $100,000 collection of French and Dutch oils, August Kochs, with typical German thrift, has always financed Victor expansion out of earnings. At present he contemplates a $1,000,000 plant with electric furnaces near Mount Pleasant, Tenn., for which the company has signed a $500,000-a-year power contract with TVA. This hefty expansion could be swung by private financing, but August Kochs has lately been pestered by stockholders who want a market valuation for their stock. Therefore last week Victor Chemical Works offered...
...with fear and trembling, and even Copey, Harvard's beloved Charles Townsend Copeland, looked upon the invasion of the first-year Class as the approach of doom. For of 1,000 lusty throats, as yet unmodulated by the traditions of the College, bellowing "Reinhardt", the prospect was not too pleasant...
...China is the vision of doing business with China's 400,000,000 potential customers. For the past 25 years head of a Shanghai advertising agency, Carl Crow now reveals in 400 Million Customers where he got to while following that vision. An unpretentious, anecdotal account, it is pleasant reading because it deals with a novel part of the Chinese scene and because its humor is as often at the expense of the author and his clients as of the Chinese...
...long distinguished itself for the success of its geologists. When the first commercial oil well was drilled in Michigan twelve years ago, Pure Oil men conferred with engineers of Dow Chemical Co. (TIME, Dec. 28), drew maps from salt well records showing probable oil structures near Mt. Pleasant. After buying leases on 500,000 Michigan acres the company proceeded to open up one of the big fields which have since made oil Michigan's third most important industry...