Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old wife applied. Said Dent: "We hear they want farm laborers out there and we thought it would be a wonderful chance for us. We don't expect anything like you see in the movies. We just want a home and enough to live on in pleasant surroundings." Added Mrs. Dent: "It will be wonderful for the child too. All that eggs and butter. I hope we'll be able...
Susan Reed: Folk Songs and Ballads -Volume II (Victor, 6 sides). More in 20-year-old Susan Reed's artfully simple style. The singing (accompanied by Irish harp or zither) is uneven, but the best of it makes very pleasant listening. The album includes, among others, Danny Boy, Greensleeves (which Shakespeare mentions in The Merry Wives of Windsor) and the plaintive Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair. Performance: good...
...Saturday he entertained Lord & Lady Halifax at lunch. At 6:15 a.m. Sunday, he boarded the Sacred Cow for a Mother's Day trip to Grandview, Mo., there to receive some pleasant news to top a pleasant week. After a setback, his 94-year-old mother was recovering satisfactorily from her hip fracture. He returned to Washington the same day, much relieved...
...about everything from the U.S.'s historical kitchen was on the stage last week at Columbia University; whatever was missing (such as a pinch of salt) could easily be added by the listener. The occasion was the first performance of Gertrude Stein's last finished work, a pleasant and unpretentious little opera, The Mother...
...Painting) is a very pleasant Hobby, if one does not have to hurry [but] I don't advise any one to take it up as a business proprosition, unless they really have talent, and are crippled so as to deprive then of phyical labor...