Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Times will keep a total of 650,000 a day, second only to the Trib's 1,000,000. "From now on," a Field executive chirped hopefully, "we'll concentrate on Hearst,* and get at McCormick sideways. " His optimism was not contagious. Marshall Field, his pleasant smile and soft voice gone for once, snapped: "I have nothing to say-on or off the record...
...Pleasant Science. Long before this stage, Hubble and his colleagues had been driving up & down Palomar Mountain to admire their still blind telescope and its lovely setting. Of all the sciences, astronomy is in many respects the pleasantest. There are no dead animals (as in biology) or horrible smells (as in chemistry). Astronomers work on clear-aired mountaintops with clean and beautiful instruments. Their experimental material-light-filters down unbidden out of the cold, dark...
...concert notes is Mahler's substitution for God's judgment. At any rate, this reviewer, for one, does not know whether the tenors were properly balanced with the sopranos or if the basses were in good voice, but he asserts that the tone of the choral groups was always pleasant and controlled, even when they were called upon to join in one of the most overwhelming fortissimos ever survived by mortals...
...Nathaniel Ireland built the house in 1807, it has grown steadily in size and importance, until today it is the center of a large women's college. Attitudes toward Fay House have changed too, though the trend has been different. In 1819 it was called, "One of the most pleasant and eligible situations in Cambridge for a literary gentleman," while a remark heard the other day went something like, "A gracious house, sure; but it must be hard to heat." "Ireland's Folly," whispered Cambridge when the seemingly pretentious building was erected, and of course they were partly right...
...Fleet" is that it lacks the horrible brassiness of modern musicals. It is inexpressibly delightful to sit in a theater without the constant danger of having a big-name band jump up and down noisily. Here the commercial Jazz is present but not overpowering, and the picture wends its pleasant way without mishap. A perhaps interesting note: Betty Grable is in the billing, but it was impossible to find her in the movie. Perhaps she dyed her hair, or perhaps she was a maid, but don't look too hard and you'll be safe...