Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Irene Ballot, Radcliffe '44, who played the feminine lead in Parts and New York, directs the play, Stepping tuto Miss Ballot's shoes as the pleasant vamp who has all the men in love with her, is Miss Diapa Mowrer, Radcliffe...
Hits Wanted. Sportswriters, to whom spring training is always a pleasant vacation, grumbled and groaned because the clubs trained in New Jersey, Indiana and other cold, rainy places instead of in Florida and California. But managers, with one eye on the business offices, found that northern training had many advantages: owners saved money, players got more exercise and avoided long, wearying barnstorming trips...
...surgeon. The surgeon's Western education had not altered the decorum, the grace, the rigid loveliness of his family life, which adorned that evening like a page out of Lafcadio Hearn. It had not altered anything else, either. Late in the evening, after a good deal of pleasant enough talk, and apropos nothing, the surgeon "said quietly that he wished his country would wipe off the insult, declare war on mine. I was amazed. I asked, 'What insult?' He answered, 'The insult of the Exclusion...
...only familiar work on the well balanced program, the Sibelius Fifth Symphony, written in the distant past of 1915, was given an adequate reading. Following the intermission, Camargo Guarnieri, Brazilian composer, conducted the orchestra in-his own new "Abertura Concertante" while not particularly remarkable or inspired, is pleasant and diverting. And knee-deep in a mid-western drawl, engrossed in his Lincolnian stance, speaker Will Geer skillfully assisted she BSO in the local premiere of Aaron Copland's "A Lincoln Portrait" to conclude the concert...
...Radcliffe and to Cambridge. We have had a memorable two and a half months which none of us will over forget. We'll be a long time out of the Navy before we forget the girl who slept in the bunk beneath us, or our company commander with the pleasant smile, or the platoon leader who even said "Hup" with a southern accent, or the gal who played all the practical jokes and then had to have her ribs taped up when she played ball just a little too vigorously. We'll long remember the ten-to-eleven hour...