Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From San Antonio's station WOAI last week a pleasant little brunette voice broadcast to the world how she had met a "dashing, handsome second lieutenant" in the Philippines, had lived happily with him ever after. The informative lady was Mrs. Walter Krueger, wife of the commander of the Third Army. Her observations were part of a program called Army Wives...
...thought of as anything more than a decoration of an odd moment. To be fair in setting such standards at the present time is perhaps more difficult for the critic than ever before because of the plethora of prevalent styles and techniques and the growing rift between what is pleasant to listen to and what is skilfully written. Nevertheless, standards are a practical necessity if you want to get as much as possible out of any one type of music and tolerance can reach a point where it is hard to distinguish from indifference. The critic should feel free...
...Count, he apparently is a Harvard rooter, after doing a turn over the Crimson Network last spring, for he gives the number an extra special treatment. There is some excellent saxophone moaning on the first two choruses, and Dicky Wells, or someone just as good, plays a few pleasant bars of trombone during the vocal. And just to make sure that "Harvard Blues" has a congenial mate, the reverse, one of those riff numbers which could have been named anything at all, has been entitled "Coming Out Party...
...members of the British Security Police dressed themselves up in German uniforms and started out in broad British daylight to see whether Britain was on the qui vive. Bareheaded, without overcoats, one in the blue of a Luftwaffe officer, the other in German infantry grey, they first took a pleasant bus ride from London to Gerrard's Cross 17 miles away. They talked socially with their fellow passengers in guttural, Germanic English. One passenger thought they were Russians, others favored the hypothesis that they were Poles or Czechs. They asked questions of a British Army captain-who answered them...
Later in a pleasant office in Cairo, St. John argued with a British censor. He had written that the evacuation of Greece was not "another Dunkirk," since at Dunkirk losses had only amounted to 10%, while the Greek campaign had cost a flat 50%. The censor crossed out everything after "Dunkirk...