Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Double Insurance. The office is a pleasant, airy room with polished brass desk ornaments, a gilded telephone, and a view of green Arkansas forests across the big river. It is not only a political nerve center but headquarters for one of the South's largest insurance and mortgage loan businesses. In 22 years, E. H. Crump & Co. has experienced a phenomenal growth; many a Memphis business man understandably believes that insurance with Crump has a double value. Crump's 54 years in Memphis have yielded him not only power, but wealth-cotton land in Mississippi, a fine brick...
...pleasant May afternoon in Seoul has been disturbed for several hours now by a long blast of Korean oratory, hurled into the streets from a loudspeaker in a former Japanese bank building. "We will fight for independence," an unseen speaker shouts, "until the last Korean is dead!" Other voices are summoning Koreans to a mass meeting on behalf of freedom...
...Wonderful." By week's end the new life had become pleasant routine. Mrs. Isabella B. Luckenbach, wife of a lieutenant colonel in Berlin, glowed with approval of her big, ten-room house in suburban Dahlem. Said she: "Naturally I'm going to fix things the way I like, but all in all I think it's wonderful. . . . I guess the biggest surprise was the plumbing. I always thought continental plumbing wasn't up to our standards. But we've got the grandest tile bathrooms in this house -three of them-one on each floor...
...first companies reporting, 127 did better in 1946 than in 1945; 86 did worse. But there were plenty of surprises. Whether they were pleasant or unpleasant depended on whether earnings had 1) plummeted under strikes or 2) soared because of the end of the excess-profits tax. (Greatest surprise of all would have been a strike for lower wages...
...historical research, Professor McIlwain has managed to avoid the catacombs of Widener by accumulating a sizable library of his own, a library which includes books in German, French, Latin, and assorted languages. Located in a large and pleasant room, book-lined on all sides, it contains many classic and compendious volumes of which the oldest book is a 1478 edition of "Augustinus Triumphus," beautifully done on what he calls "real paper, not this cheap modern stuff...