Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remarkable fact that the Messrs. Shubert can present such a large and youthful men's chorus as the Prince's fellow students. Although the ensemble seems decreased in size, it still provides a pleasant background for the principals' songs and does not seem diminished in vocal power when singing its won, "To the Inn We're Marching" and the "Drinking Song...
Like death's shroud, snow fell on Ortona. Over the town's rubble and corpses a chill Apennine wind keened. Ortona, for centuries alive and pleasant on a rocky shelf above the slate-colored Adriatic, now lay dead and hideous. The battle had surged...
Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow...
...SMITH. "Mr. President, the comments we are hearing are not very pleasant for those of us who for seventy-odd years have kept the real Democratic fires burning and made possible the election of the gang that is now disgracing...
...from Thomas Bell's novel Till I Come Back to You; produced by Jed Harris). Nunnally Johnson, one of Hollywood's surest-footed scripters (The Grapes of Wrath, Holy Matrimony), slithers about rather badly on Broadway. The World's Full of Girls has nice dialogue, some pleasant scenes. But it suggests a wobbly coupling of two plays rather than a dramatization of one novel. Half of it portrays a large Brooklyn family addicted to quarrels and adorned "with quirks; the other half describes the punctured-and-repaired romance of two outsiders. And to his two stories that...