Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Hines Woodring of Topeka, Kans. is a man who loves nice things. As a private citizen, he likes tatting, antiques, and the view from his front porch, with its pleasant shrubbery and small lake. As a politician, he doesn't care to associate with the hoarse, beefy men of the smoke-filled hotel rooms...
Parlor Story (by William McCleery; produced by Paul Streger) might have made a very pleasant comedy had it kepi to the mood of the title. Playwright McCleery has a feeling for people (particularly young people) and a knack for natural and amusing dialogue. But he has cluttered his parlor with ideological furniture and chained his characters to a large hunk of plot...
...spring training, that was enough for baseball writers. They seldom wrote a story of which Hartung was not the hero. One newsman broke down and confessed: "Hartung is human. He is, after all, Frank Merriwell and not Superman. He gets hungry. 'Boys,' he proclaimed after a pleasant chat, 'I must...
...relying upon the wittiest of word play rather than comic situations, is much less at home upon the stage than upon the printed page. But a fair number of recognizable bon mots still remain, together with sketchy outlines of the plot, such as it is. And with some very pleasant music and some clever lyrics by a couple of freshmen in the musical comedy business, named Sidney Lippman and Sylvia Dee, and most especially with Nancy Walker in the cast, the book becomes a secondary matter. It's built around a sharply-pointed parody of Joe College on his home...
Died. Grace Livingston Hill, 81, indefatigable, ' hugely successful author (79 novels; total sales: 4,000,000 copies) of pleasant, religion-flavored morality tales; while working on her 80th book; in Swarthmore...