Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman knew that the pleasant interlude would soon end. He had already given up plans for a trip to the Philippines to attend the Philippines' Independence Day. But while it lasted it was wonderful. Even rambunctious John L. Lewis was rumbling amicably from the sidelines. Said his United Mine Workers Journal: "President Truman performed his greatest public service on the domestic front to date when he vetoed the Case Bill. Truman hit the bulls...
...Sisters from Boston. A series of pleasant specialty acts, done up in Gay Nineties costume, by talented Troupers Jimmy Durante, Lauritz Melchior, Kathryn Grayson, June Allyson (TIME, June...
...through such varied backgrounds as a stiff-bosomed New England drawing room, a Bowery honkytonk, an imitation Metropolitan Opera Co. stage in full cry. In spite of its singing, dancing, frenzied movement and fancy dress, Two Sisters adds up to not much more than a series of unrelated, tolerably pleasant specialty acts by a troupe of gifted performers...
...through the wintry rain and made Morón airfield on schedule. The new U.S. ambassador was a man in a hurry. He had come to negotiate with Juan Perón. To the Army major and Navy lieutenant who brought the President-elect's wishes for "a pleasant stay in Argentina" he rasped: "Tell the Colonel I appreciate his saludos and hope to see him soon...
Into Berlin's press camp breezed a pretty young ex-WAC introduced as Vivian Cox, an "expert" attached to the Military Directorate. Sitting on a desk and dangling her long, nylon-clad legs, Miss Cox answered indignant newsmen's questions in a pleasant Southern drawl. How would "militaristic" be defined, asked one reporter. Replied Miss Cox: "It's the way the Germans have of waging war." How would "democratic" be defined? Said Miss Cox: "Everything American people think and call democratic." Was the order different in principle from Nazi book burnings? No, not in Miss...