Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public types him for keeps, Scott never writes a note of music from one year's end to the next: he dictates his compositions. This method, he admits, is prompted partly by laziness, partly by the fact that "if you have an audience around, it's very pleasant to compose...
Sculling in those days was not as pleasant as it is today, for all the pigs for miles around floated up and down on the tide a menace with which present day rowers don't have to contend. Only the odors from the Watertown slaughter house remain to remind them of those cruder days...
...today's special. The Sea-Gull Cry is less portentous. A blonde young Polish countess is living in an abandoned scow on Cape Cod. A timid, tender, middle-aged professor visits her. After an infinitesimal tiff, they fall in love. That, except for a pair of pleasant children and a brace of pungent New Englanders, is all. The thousands of Nathan readers will find The Sea-Gull Cry pleasant summer reading. Others may be reminded of those hairdressers' exhibits where decollete women with complete sets of sculptured curls smile forever in a windless world...
...right-&-left-hand man to Henry L. Stimson. As an old World War I artilleryman, he commands the respect of combat generals, often gives them a useful new idea, such as using puddlejumper planes for observation work (see p. 72). Affable and efficient, he hurries conversations along with a pleasant "yep, yep," puffs away at thick cigars, flicks the ashes deftly into a wastebasket four feet away, occasionally extracts a bell-shaped chocolate drop from a pile on the desk. His duties have included everything from handling administrative details of the Army training program to moving Japanese off the West...
...group in the U.S. this week the wartime dimout on the East Coast is a pleasant necessity. They are the seaboard members of the informal fellowship of amateur astronomers. All over the U.S., through handmade telescopes mounted in attics, haylofts, garages, cornfields, hilltops, these sidereal sightseers lift up their eyes on cloudless nights to peer at the stars. Until the dimout their stargazing was hampered by the electric corona (newspapers now call it "lume") that glares on the sky above brightly lit towns. Now, with lights out or dimmed, amateur astronomers can see new hundreds of feeble stars...