Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This summer the pleasant pattern for contemplation was threatened. The municipal health department decided to attack the fly and mosquito population by air-spraying the town with DDT solution. Private goldfish fanciers were outraged at the danger to the fish population...
Attainable Goal. As Betty herself readily admits, her talents are unremarkable. Unlike some other movie stars, she can lay no claims to sultry beauty or mysterious glamor. Her singing and dancing are pleasant and spirited, but not highly skilled. Her peach-cheeked, pearl-blonde good looks add up to mere candy-box-top prettiness. Even her intensively publicized legs (immortalized in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater, along with Gable's ears and Barrymore's profile) cannot compare in symmetry to Dietrich...
Like other Hollywood homes, the James residence (a rambling affair, Old English outside and Early American inside) has a swimming pool. Like many another U.S. home, it has a television set, but no library. Harry and Betty seldom leave this pleasant place for parties, never for nightclubs. When they do go out it is usually to a ball game or the movies (preferably westerns) or the race track. Aside from the children (Vicki, 4, and Jessica, less than 1) and the poodles (Wow and Gaffus), the James's major hobby is horses. Both Betty and Harry own horses...
Board President Louis La Bow said the meeting had been "a pleasant social gathering . . . most interesting." But another board member was more frank. Said he: "The musicians have the gall to say-and believe-that they have had to play down to conductors for years, and that they must maintain their own high standards. I'd love to hear Beecham's reply to that . . . They're musical mobsters. They're out to have Ali Baba for a chairman-there are just 40 of them...
...genial, scholarly man, who relaxes by reading Greek and Latin, he is a lifetime trustee of the university. His fellow trustees, seeking "the best man available," found him in their own midst, cleared his appointment with Stassen. Said Justice Roberts: "The prospect of working with Stassen is a pleasant...