Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toward the end of his pleasant life, Artist Mount flirted with spiritualism. Several of his supramundane gambits made copy for newsmen of the 1860s. The New York Evening Post once gravely reported: "We met him one day in Broadway, and he ... took from his hat a roll of papers filled with etchings by Rembrandt, who had the previous night appeared to him. . . . These . . . were probably Mr. Mount's own work, but produced under some spiritualistic hallucination."* The old painter's preoccupation with Rembrandt was deeper than the Post knew. A few years before his death from pneumonia...
Columbia's "A Song to Remember" combines lush technicolor with the music of Frederic Chopin in a pleasant, if unauthentic, representation of the famous pianist-composer's life...
...perched house to the street. Other characters include Vaughan's dull wife Emmy, who prided herself on being a daughter of one of "the Mercer girls" imported from New England by one Asa Mercer to mate with the lonely pioneers, and Vaughan's mistress Pansy Deleath, a pleasant, casual woman whom he met while she was singing in the Gold Strike Saloon in Alaska...
When they left the train at Camp Shanks, out of long habit they formed ranks. Then an unreal officer told them unreal things through a loudspeaker. "We want to make your stay here pleasant and short. You leave tomorrow for your homes...
...return to China, was uncertain whether he would return to the theater: "I have always believed that drama criticism is an ignoble profession at best, and doubly so in wartime. I'm not ratting on my pals. I may some day return to it. It's very pleasant, and it doesn't matter to me whether it is ignoble...