Word: pleasant
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...latest feature to be added is "The College Pump" which first appeared in the March 8 issue as a column "for the stray line of Harvard verse, the pleasant non-sequitur of academic observation, and the simple fragment of phrase...
When the history of World War II is written, the events of Spring, 1940, will not make pleasant reading. Five European nations, inoffensive by-standers who had steadfastly maintained that this was a conflict in which they had no part, in which they were taking no side, were invaded. They had earnestly endeavoured to maintain a calm neutrality. They had failed...
...tells the story of a rich young rakehell named Hsi Men, of whom it was said that "unless they are concubines of the Prince of Hell himself, they belong to the harem of wealthy Hsi Men." Fretful because he is not ten men, something of a sadist (though a pleasant fellow at times), Hsi is figuratively said to enjoy "spending his nights among blossoms and willows." The details are put much more plainly...
This version of the old Cinderella story does not rate prolonged cheers. But spun out by the deft Wilcox touch, it is pleasant entertainment, as airy and filmy as the gowns in which pert Upholsterer's Apprentice Neagle dances her way into the heart of Madame Lucy (Ray Milland), the masculine modiste who employs and marries her. There are well-tailored performances by Roland Young, Billie Burke, Arthur Treacher. Cinemactress Neagle sings charmingly, dances delightfully, is saucy, dainty, indubitably youthful...
...family memoirs as Life With Father, Grandma Called It Carnal, Mencken's Happy Days, Author Flexner's story of her girlhood is nevertheless charming Americana. Quaker-plain in the telling, it is noteworthy among oldsters' memoirs for one fact in particular: despite Author Flexner's pleasant memories, she evokes the unmistakable stresses and veiled repressions that lay under the surface...