Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fancy dress about "women's rights" in the late igth Century. The plot consists of one pale joke (in the 18705, typists seem to have been referred to as "typewriters"). It isn't much fun - despite the Technicolor, some hitherto unpublished Gershwin tunes. Dick Haymes's pleasant baritone, and Betty Grable's incomparable pin-up legs...
...typical musical, straight off the moviemakers seemingly endless assembly line. Jack Carson does his best to liven things up a bit, handling a sparse handful of gags with a veteran hand, and most of the musical numbers, though of no great significance, are pleasant enough to the eye and ear, but that's about...
According to Professor Rice, the home of the penguin and the albatross "would be a pleasant place to spend a vacation," and while shivering New Englanders await the advent of spring, he tells us that the summer temperature of the unexplored continent "often rises above freezing...
...lecturers in elementary psychology. Yet short of doing handstands on the platform, glowing in the dark, or making faces at the audience, little can ordinarily be done to lighten up the subject's long succession of polysyllabic terms. But the lectures which Professor Gordon Allport delivers in his pleasant, wry voice bypass the whole question by gearing theory in at every step with commonplace experience. "A theory lisn't a good theory if it doesn't work," he says, making it all sound not overly difficult...
...German universities before accepting a teaching job at Roberts College, in Istanbul. The classes at Roberts were conducted in English, but no one could understand him unless he spoke a brand called "Standard London" English. Learning to mouth this dialect on pain of being incomprehensible resulted in his present, pleasant way of talking which most people consider Canadian...