Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Until then," the Tsarina went on, "we enjoyed a pleasant, if rather insubstantial, life. We used to haunt the Casino at Monte Carlo. But after the partition of Poland, Nicky insisted on returning to Russia. He began to attend the meetings of the Politburo. The Politburo! Oh, those interminable speeches. . . . Ah, Katorga...
...when we could remind people of parents' duties to children and vice versa." In her newspaper column, she offered a quick glimpse at Roosevelt family life: "Certainly in . . . our large family there is never a dearth of conversation! I am not sure that it is always pleasant, but . . . it is always stimulating...
...films after four years' absence. There is also, of course, the bottlebrushy terrier Asta, who must, unless like Hitler he is two other dogs, richly qualify by now for M.G.M.'s munificent old-age benefits. The fifth time around, the three of them still guarantee a pleasant excuse for putting off household repairs and serious reading...
...boys to Andover and Yale and Harvard, come what might; raised so many roses trying to lift a mortgage that they broke the New York market; financed the development of a pioneer monoplane which crashed along with the Stock Exchange; got through the Great Depression with a pleasant bit of comedy about peddling vacuum cleaners; began to recoup tidily in & about the New York World's Fair; and invincibly began discussing their next move-back-to-the-land-after they saw their sons off to war. The theme of the film, as Harold Pierson states it, appears...
...book, George Harvey Bone is a frustrated newspaperman and the jealous lover of a compelling brunette girl of the streets. When Netta spurns his advances, George provides the reader with some pleasant food for bedtime though by drowning her while she gambols in the evening bath. The late Laird Cregar, Twentieth-Century Fox's discerning choice for Bone, was forced by a more puritan plot to strangle a fully-dressed wench with a strip of drapery...