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Word: pleasant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 1/11/1944 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ITALY: Death Comes to Ortona | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Drinking Man | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: EXPLOSION IN THE SENATE | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Dec. 20, 1943 | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

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