Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were pleased to see the black clouds rolling up, with lightning flaring off in the distance. They hoped for a storm, as people do, to break the humid spell. At 8:30 p.m., in the 25 drab company houses that front on U.S. Route 19 as it climbs through Pleasant Hill, W. Va., supper was over, the dishes done, and the youngest children tucked away in bed. At 8:50 the windows rattled menacingly, like a snake giving warning. At 8:51 the storm came...
...pleasant surprise of coming into the air-conditioned lounge had worn off, and the Vag stared idly at the drink in his hand, trying hard to keep his head above the current of nostalgia that was tugging at him. This sort of thing might be all right for other people, but it was going to be different with Vag. He had seen too many of his friends go; too much breaking down at the finish, too many last walks around the Yard, too much dreaming over old English A themes and football program. He had gone to too many farewell...
Good Start. Bayeux was hardly touched by the invasion; the Germans got out too fast. In this pleasant tourist town, life is much as it always was, except for the gala display of the Tricolor. But in Bayeux I heard a story that probably reveals the temper of France better than anything else one could see or hear in isolated Normandy. A young man who had come from Paris three days before the invasion said that there, all the young people are mad for jazz music and the young men now wear zoot suits. He understood that this...
...Ralph Forbes. At first viewing the play seems to have rather slim chances of a Broadway run, but the plans at present are to exhibit it at other summer theatres and with a rewrite job that would eliminate a talky first act it could very easily become a very pleasant theatre experience. At any rate, last night's opening audience enjoyed it immensely. In short, "A Goose for the Gander" is considerably above average summer theatre fare...
...some people, life was pleasant in Rome last week. Bright sunshine and tempering breezes by day, a waxing moon by night added charm to the beautiful, eternal city...