Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Ackland was invited to Duke, had such a pleasant time that he knocked North Carolina and Rollins out of his will entirely. He bequeathed to Duke not only the art museum, but also his mortal remains to be buried in the museum apse. With these affairs settled, in 1940 he died...
High Barbaree. June Allyson and Van Johnson in a pleasant romance about a boy who forgot his childhood dreams and a girl who never forgot (TIME, June...
...Pleasant Smoke. A sacred creed of most doctors-that smoking is bad for diseased hearts-was disputed by Dr. Robert L. Levy and a group of colleagues at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Levy's group found that patients with various heart diseases who smoked two cigarets in succession showed no harmful effects. Smoking raised their blood pressure and heart rate, but no more than their usual daily emotional experiences...
...clumsy, apologetic scenes which hurry Miss Tierney across enough time to die a natural death and thus qualify for Captain Harrison's ghostly embraces. The film's whimsy is a bit heavy-handed and it is short on wit, style and ingenuity. Yet most of it is pleasant enough fun, and pretty to watch. Harrison, apparently modeling himself after Bernard Shaw as a boy of 40, sports a handsome beaver. Miss Tierney wears beautiful turn-of-the-century dresses designed by her former husband, Oleg Cassini; her acting is neither better nor worse than usual. Edna Best...
...first time last week, prospects were not so rosy. London's critics (like Rome's-TIME, March 24) took the old boy for a fall. Hmmed the Daily Graphic: "New York has been convulsed for seven years. . . . Why?" The Daily Telegraph found it "all very pleasant in an elementary way [but] not as good as all that." The News Chronicle was inclined to blame the slow-paced British cast (headed by Leslie Banks and Sophie Stewart), who "struggle hard not to give the impression that they are foundering in mid-Atlantic." Perhaps the Daily Express meant...