Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yale cartoonist picks on Georgia, although the only difference between the recruiting of athletes at Yale and down south is that Yale has more money to spend, and goes about it more subtly. Yale men long ago founded the University of Georgia. Later, they established a pleasant football relationship, with Yale winning every year. Then beginning in the late '20s, Georgia won six out of seven, and it wasn't so nice any more. When Georgia won her fifth straight in 1934, Yale thought it best to sever the relationship. After twelve years, it seems Yale is still...
...thirteen passionately interested members of Professor Theodore Spencer's English 23a, a select company of fifteen actors and actor-types handled "Henry IV, Part Two" with much humor and ability. The two hundred students who, unwittingly or not, cut this session at Fogg Auditorium could not have found more pleasant diversion at any of the local movie palaces, or melded any more ammunition for their November hour exam in the solitude of their ivy-cased studies. Peter Temple 1G, directed and played King Henry, with Mendy Weisgal '45 as Justice Shallow, David Hersey '48 as Sir John Falstaff, Ted Allegretti...
Henry Bone, a white restaurant keeper from Waverly, had set out in his 1946 car on a drunken spree. At the wheel was "Blue" Pearson, his chauffeur for 15 years. Beside Pearson sat Roy Lee Johnson, who also had worked for Bone. Both, in the words of Mount Pleasant's white folks, were "good niggers...
...cosmopolitan chronicler of life backstairs (Hotel Splendide), headed home from London after giving Britons his inside dope on Hollywood, where he spent three years. "If you stay too long," said he gravely, "you wake up one day and find you are 84 and it's all been a pleasant dream...
...makers of Margie had the good taste, good sense and steady hands to avoid cuteness, undue hokum and the extremes of either patronizing burlesque or sticky sentiment. The acting is restrained and sometimes touching, the color pleasant, the music nostalgic (Avalon, I'll See You in My Dreams, Three O'Clock in the Morning). As Jeanne's grandmother remarks somewhere in the story: "At your age, child, everything is wonderful." Margie's camera somehow manages to look at things with a 16-year-old's wonderful perspective. Oldsters now crowding 40 can be grateful...