Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group of capital headliners, including Senators Taft and Vandenberg and General Dwight Eisenhower. Aged Joe Grundy arrived from Pennsylvania with a train of lesser politicians and their wives. After a sumptuous dinner, the ladies retired and the gentlemen fired up their cigars. Then somebody suddenly dispelled the air of pleasant sociability...
...pleasant to know Mr. Lear!" he once wrote in an autobiographical verse, and most eminent Victorians would have agreed. Critic John Ruskin put him "first of my hundred authors." Solemn statesmen referred to his Books of Nonsense in Parliament. "Sich," sighed Lear to his Learishly spelled diary, "is phame...
...year's executive board: Selig S. Harrison '48, of Winthrop House and Pittsburgh, Pa., as President; William S. Fairfield '50, of Eliot House and Milwaukee, Wis. as Managing Editor; Paul Sack '48, of Winthrop House and Yonkers, N. Y., as Business Manager; Joel Raphaelson '49, of Dunster House and Pleasant Valley, Pa., as Editorial Chairman; George G. Daniels '48, of 74 Phillips Street and Short Hills, N. J., as Executive Editor; Burton S. Glinn '46, of Lowell House and Pittsburgh, as Photographic Chairman; and Thomas C. Simons '50, of Eliot House and Oakland, Cal., as Advertising Manager...
...story is a pleasant little fraud. A trumped-up anecdote of King Charles II's gay undernourishment in continental garrets, it is designed chiefly to purvey the Tarzantics of Actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. But The Exile is also Young Doug's first fling as a producer, and he has concealed most of the fraud with both legitimate and handsome cinematic tricks...
...doubt of it, a memorable thing to have, at one heave of the pick, dug out the entire psychological mosaic of this perfect, almost, book; and no less memorable, in a filmic way, to have- senza cerimonia, as it were-substituted a pleasant, if rather extended charade. Though the need for the substitution remains obscure...