Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were two Negroes in the city jail at Mount Pleasant, Tenn., and there was a mob outside. That was enough to set the news wires chattering. Out came the railroad type and the exciting radio bulletins. Soon the story began to trickle...
...this way: the Negroes had been caught trying to ram a handkerchief down a white man's throat. The white man said he was being beaten and robbed. The police chief of Mount Pleasant said he had got there just in time, or the white man would have been killed. The Negroes had been kicked and pummeled by an angry group of vengeful whites, had been saved from immediate lynching by being hustled off to jail. But a menacing mob was forming outside, and everybody knew what that meant...
...pleasant evening, and those who go Saturday night will find Showman White mesmerizing them into thinking they're in a small New York night club. Unless, as happened Tuesday, someone asks for the graphically lascivious "Jolly, Jolly," and Josh ticks Boston off by shaking his head, and saying pityingly, "Not here...
Carnegie 1946 was filled with plenty of the pleasant landscapes and appreciative portraits which generally win the $200 popular prize awarded at the end of the show. But Carnegie's three conservative jurors picked a far from conservative trio of official prizewinners. First prize ($1,000) went to hulking Karl Knaths for his gray-green, deftly tangled Gear, a composite of the Provincetown, Mass, waterfront...
...Bachelor's Daughters (Andrew Stone-United Artists) is a pleasant slice of hokum with a predictable plot, but it achieves an endearing and fairly unusual quality which the trade likes to refer to as "heart...