Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...future of the U.S. in general. A believer in an expanding economy, he called for as much hard work, as much stern industry and as much solid unity in peace as the nation has known in war. If that is achieved, he said, "the American people are in the pleasant predicament of having to learn to live 50% better than they have ever lived before...
...productions somehow always smack of the middle-aged sentimentality of Sigmund Romberg, and like Romberg they go along in the same pleasant way, making some people happy and others disgusted. "The Clock," it will be said, is heart-warming--and it is, depending on one's state of mind...
...coal. If Ruhr coal is not mined in immense quantities, France and Belgium cannot rapidly rebuild their economies. Starvation in the Ruhr will not produce coal. The policy which many a coal expert is now considering is just the opposite: make the life of the coal miner so pleasant, with plenty of food, clothing and a comfortable home, that he will have the energy and incentive to mine the coal needed. (High wages are almost meaningless in Germany today...
...flimsy story, based on "Mayering," depicts a pompous fop of a Crown Prince (played by Stockwell) who wins the love of Marinka, a Viennese debutante (played by Miss Roberts). Whenever the feminine half of the combination appears on stage, the show becomes agreeable and the singing light and pleasant. Without Miss Roberts, "Marinka" would not have dared open...
...pleasant if not terribly exciting idea is to bring hypercorporeal Jack Oakie, an oldtime music-hall magician, back to earth as a ghost to: 1) help his daughter (Peggy Ryan) put her vaudevillian blood into circulation; 2) scare a housemaid (Irene Ryan) by walking invisibly behind her on squeaky shoes; 3) frustrate and reform a family tyrant (Gene Lockhart); 4) try to explain to his own widow (June Vincent) that the "dark lady" (Karen Randle) he walked off with, some 18 years before, was no lady, but the Angel of Death...