Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main comedy roles, Michael O'Shea and Eddie Foy Jr. save some of the long, dusty stretches between songs. The songs themselves-Whistle It, In Old New York, Because You're You, Isle of Our Dreams, Every Day Is Ladies' Day With Me-are pleasant both as melodies and memories. The Red Mill is far from a full evening's entertainment, but in that respect it is no worse than many a successful musical...
...Spanish Main (RKO Radio) is the kind of pleasant nonsense that has become practically a lost art: a gaudy, fancy-dress romance with a handsome, Robin-Hooded hero, a lovely, menaced heroine and dark, churlish villains. Director Frank Borzage has appropriately filmed it all in a blaze of riotous, slam-bang Technicolor...
Carnegie, 1945, included a high quota of businessmen in smocks-artists who paint merely pleasant pictures merely for the market-but it also showed what the country's best painters were up to. Very few seemed content to imitate the European "masters" or to ride the rickety bandwagons of faddist art. Even fewer were producing stuff worth imitating. Their most successful efforts had neither the excitement of Paris art, nor the significance of Mexico's Government-sponsored murals; but they did show a groping sincerity, a heartening attempt to be themselves...
...eyed, hard-working Fred M. Vinson had a pleasant task to do this week. It was one that no other Treasury Secretary had done in 16 years-recommending a tax reduction. He told Congress that the Government could get along with $5 billion less revenue in 1946. That reduction was just about the total of tax collections in prewar years. By prewar standards, taxes would still be high (some $27.5 billion), but the Administration's program was good news all around...
...Little Bomb." At a dinner party, one of the conference's few pleasant interludes, Molotov said of Byrnes: "He doesn't need to persuade anyone. He just has to hold up a little bomb." A delegate who heard him remarked: "Mr. Molotov never makes jokes just to be funny." Undoubtedly, Mr. Molotov did not think the atomic bomb was funny...