Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Samuel Hoare. "It is appalling that this blinkered, pleasant, gossipy, gullible snob, after being Air Minister, Secretary for India, Foreign Secretary, Lord Privy Seal, should have been, installed at last in Madrid as the spokesman of the democracies. . . . No need to wish to harm him. He is what Britain made him. His proper job now is to be a gossip correspondent for a smart newspaper...
...fine orientation lesson for many of the kids who still wonder why they were yanked out of the pleasant life of youth and what the hell they're fighting...
...allow them one hour only; most will have to lunch downtown. The siesta is not a proof of laziness; office hours average about as long as in the U.S. But it requires four commuting trips a day instead of the U.S. two. In small cities the custom is efficient, pleasant. In crowded Mexico City, with 1,750,000 people and few downtown restaurants, the siesta puts a tremendous strain on transportation...
...rate among life's necessities the hot, soaking bath complete with whisk, sponge and loofah got a jolt last week. It came from testy, aging (78) Viscount Maugham, elder brother of Novelist W. Somerset Maugham. Said the Viscount, during a House of Lords debate on water shortage: "As pleasant as it is to have a daily bath, it is not really necessary to health. Many lads who came back from Africa had not had a bath in three months and they will tell you they were none the worse. A bath very largely is a luxury, and water closets...
...grounded from combat duty, that he was on leave, that he had been promoted from first lieutenant to captain. Tall, handsome, correct, he cut a figure with starry-eyed girls. By watching his talk, by not getting drunk, by moving from town to town, he managed to lead a pleasant existence for ten months before he was caught...