Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First Lieut. Jere Knight, from Pleasant Valley, Pa., widow of British-born Author Major Eric Knight and considered the handsomest WAC in London, averaged at least two dinner invitations an evening...
...WAAF Flight Officer Jacqueline Leigh-Mallory, 23, only daughter of the invasion's air commander, British Air Chief Marshal Trafford Leigh Leigh-Mallory; and U.S. Army Air Forces Flight Officer William Ellwood Doherty Jr., 26; in London. In peacetime he was a chemist at his family's Pleasant Valley Wine Co., a top-ranking American champagne producer, in Hammondsport...
Until last week Argentina didn't know its good fortune. Then Mrs. Leila Drew, who writes a column "Mainly for Women" in the English language Buenos Aires Herald, picked up a bit of gossip. She was off like a hound for the pleasant suburb of Villa Urquiza. There the trail got hot. Tradesmen had played with the rumored quints, delivered eight bottles of milk a day to their parents' home. A drug-clerk had seen them brought in batches to be weighed on the scales of the Farmacia San Patricio. Neighbors had seen them being aired in sets...
...tall, well-built, with thin blond hair and slightly bulgy blue eyes. Starting from scratch, he made about a million dollars, owns three large farms, a dye works, a textile mill and a vegetable-oil factory. Señora Ana María Aversavo de Diligenti, pleasant, plump, 42 and also born near Milan, came to Argentina as a singer with a small opera company, leaving a husband in Italy. She gave up her career eight years ago when she and a small son, by her first husband, moved in with Señor Diligenti...
...Diligenti household is a pleasant one, mostly devoted to babies. Except for the dining room, the entire ground floor of the comfortable eight-room house is a three-room nursery for the quints. The rest of the family live upstairs or in a made-over garage. The establishment runs like clockwork, the babies taking naps at staggered intervals to make them easier to care...