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Word: pleasant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Judge Hardy's advice to adolescents continues, with a couple of plugs for the good old U. S. A. and the good-neighbor policy thrown in, but a new note is sounded by singer Kathryn Grayson as Andy's "secretary." She draws considerable applause with her pleasant soprano voice, but has yet to give her operatic and popular renditions some everyday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

...London Times divulged to its readers last week "a disagreeable surprise." Bengasi had fallen into Axis hands again. Later in the week it had a pleasant surprise: Addis Ababa had fallen into British hands without a struggle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, SOUTHERN THEATER: Seesaw in Africa | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

...Gene Krupa's Georgia on my Mind, which shows that Krupa's band is one of the country's top five when it wants to be. It's a tasteful arrangement of a really exceptional tune, and features a vocal by one Anita O'Day, whose singing was as pleasant a surprise tome as it will be to you. Miss O'Day really has the right idea on how to phrase this kind of a tune. Consequently she's the closest thing to a female Teagarden I've ever heard. Reverse is a riff number entitled Alreet, a phrase currently...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWING | 4/12/1941 | See Source »

That adds up to saying that under the present system, the non-honors Senior gets a reward he has not earned. He is let off from finals simply because he is a Senior and "can be trusted" to work without the fear of finals hanging over him. Unfortunately, pleasant though this ideal may be, it doesn't work out. Lecture courses taken by large numbers of Seniors are practically unattended as soon as hour exams are over. It is a rare student who will do work which isn't going to be checked up on. The only remedy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reward For Naught | 4/8/1941 | See Source »

...Beginning. As one of seven children of a Spokane, Wash, accountant, Bing's earliest leanings were towards having fun. Pleasant and easygoing, he liked to swim at Mission Park on hot days or whack around the Downriver golf course with his rusty, secondhand clubs. His vague goal was the law, which he leisurely studied at nearby Gonzaga University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Groaner | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

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