Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made his anesthetic by combining ether with cyclopropane (a modern, quick-acting inhalation anesthetic). First he tried it on dogs, rats, mice, mon. keys, the hearts of frogs. Then he tried it on Mrs. Constance Black, an expert anesthetist in her own right. She reported that the anesthetic was "pleasant," an adjective few have applied to ether...
...nursery at Phillips Brooks House, managed by Miss Winifred Lydon, a pleasant, white-haired lady very much interested in the psychological aspects of her job, takes care of children of war-time personnel who are over two but under kindergarten age. The nursery is open from 2 until 5 o'clock on Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday afternoons
...efforts failing, Argentina signed her own treaty with Paraguay, giving trade and financial concessions never dreamed of before. Simultaneously she redoubled her frantic efforts to entice neighbor Chile into her "free-trade area," offering a subway for Santiago, a tunnel under the Andes and other pleasant things. The Chilean leftist press described it as another attempt by Argentina to escape from isolation...
...When they turned up in Cairo, they unanimously demanded that King George II agree to stay out of liberated Greece until the people have a chance to choose a postwar government. After some thought, the Cabinet in Exile endorsed the demand. But the King demurred: perhaps he recalled his pleasant reception in Washington last year, the warm words of Winston Churchill at Quebec. The guerrilla envoys returned to Greece emptyhanded; soon the world began to hear of brother killing brother in lean and hungry Greece...
...just about. But Princess O'Rourke, a pleasant enough comedy, offers one unusual shot-prim Olivia de Havilland in a bathtub scene. Miss de Havilland, a princess in search of a diplomatically and physically acceptable consort, happens on Transcontinental Pilot Robert Cummings. Miss de Havilland and Pilot Cummings exchange some rather rare wheezes about his ability to perpetuate the royal line and she decides he is just what she needs. Then the picture shifts to Washington for what is getting to be a patent Warner Bros, windup. It seems that President Roosevelt has avuncular feelings toward the princess...