Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talk of sending an Ambassador back to Moscow, even though Premier Molotov was making such aspersive remarks about Italy's Albanian grab that the Italian press would not print them. Il Duce moved to renew the British trade talks, and French Premier Reynaud had a long and apparently pleasant talk with Ambassador Raffaele Guariglia. But as French Ambassador André François-Poncet returned to Paris, L'Oeuvre commented: "It's not a secret that he didn't obtain impressive results at Rome...
...living in a very real world . . . even Mr. Hutchins spends part of the winter in Florida . . . where he finds research quite pleasant, unless perchance it be research into intercollegiate football. On this subject he has made up his mind that no further research is necessary...
Abuilding last week all over the U. S. were 98 other LIFE houses. They are planned to show how readily any family earning from $2,000 to $5,000 a year may get an efficient, pleasant house. They will cost from $2,850 to $6,900 (with land, up to $10,000). Eight top-architectural firms designed the eight houses at nominal fees: Cameron Clark; Gardner A. Dailey; Holabird & Root; Howe & Brown; Perry, Shaw & Hepburn; Shaw, Naess & Murphy; Shreve, Lamb & Harmon; Treanor & Fatio...
...pieces. But dapper, energetic Igor Stravinsky found himself the most influential composer of his generation. To younger composers the Sacre became music's Declaration of Independence. By 1920 nearly every musical youngling was throwing over his counterpoint for Stravinskian grunts & groans. To be caught in public with a pleasant tune was as embarrassing to a composer as to be caught without his pants. Every cacophony known to man was rooted out and set to music. Audiences shivered, but in vain...
...York, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow) was at its height. In Madrid he buckled down to his first job of scholarly writing, a life of Columbus. Young Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, passing through, noted that Irving was at his desk every morning at six; that in society he "said very pleasant agreeable things in a husky, weak, peculiar voice." He liked everybody, but he especially liked a handsome, Spanish Mrs. O'Shea, a pretty French girl named Antoinette Bolviller. To the latter, a niece of the Russian Minister, Irving wrote the best letters of his life. All that is known...