Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Burchfield, a six-footer, looks like a well-dressed, grey-haired businessman who has pleasant secrets of his own, but he is wistful and diffident. He likes to talk about his work, and talks well...
...evening in March, 1941, Mrs. Pauline Washburh, a greying, grandmotherly Manhattan widow, picked up her telephone and heard a pleasant voice say: "You're the winner of the Pot o' Gold. Congratulations! Your gift of $900 will arrive in 20 minutes...
Production alone could furnish the answers. If industry did the job in peace which it had done in war, then the answers would sound pleasant to businessmen. They would have their profits. And labor might well have a larger slice of the national pie. There was no reason why industry could not do the job as long as it realized the size of the job to be done...
...much bigger than a mouse. The truth was. the baby looked very much like a mouse in every way. He was only about two inches high; and he had a mouse's sharp nose, a mouse's tail, a mouse's whiskers, and the pleasant shy manner of a mouse. Before he was many days old he was not only looking like a mouse but acting like one, too-wearing a gray hat and carrying a small cane. . . . The doctor was delighted with Stuart and said that it was very unusual for an American family to have...
...colored hair haloing a pink pate, he looked more like a Benedictine friar than a musical anarchist. The anarchy was too much for some of the audience, who walked out at half time. But other martyrs who had come to give dissonance its due found the new Hindemith shockingly pleasant to listen...