Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...northern wing of Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt's pleasant, quasi-Georgian home at Hyde Park, is "the little study." It is Franklin Roosevelt's particular room-the place where he reads, works, ponders, fondles his blue-bound naval scrapbooks, welcomes intimate friends for intimate talks. One afternoon last week, the President and a friend had a long talk in the little study. The friend was James Aloysius Farley...
...entire U. S. tax structure, revise it toward two simple objectives: maximum revenues and maximum production. Meanwhile, with the President's untimely words in its ears, many a U. S. corporation recalled the last time it had "a steeply graduated excess-profits tax." The memory was not pleasant...
Last winter he and Germany's Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop spent several pleasant evenings together at the cinema in Berlin. Going and coming, they would chat about the new friendly relations that had grown up between their two countries. But for the last month and a half Ambassador Shkvartsev has wished he did not know German so well, since he has had to listen to some Ribbentrop tirades that the Foreign Minister would be too cagey to put into notes...
...redemption announcement to 134-1/32. New York Ship (TIME, May 20) is a leading beneficiary of Franklin Roosevelt's five-year-old naval and merchant marine construction boom. To holders of other capital-goods securities, landlocked by heavy arrearages, New York Ship's performance was a pleasant omen of what they may expect when National Defense moves inland...
...England from 1811 to 1820). This statement is not quite true (besides an Italian biography translated in 1907, there has been the more recent Queen Caroline by Sir Edward Parry), but Author Coxe's sympathy and well-oiled wit make his biography of much-abused Caroline a pleasant addition to Regency history...