Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cortesi stuck to his tune, and the Times stuck to him-until Mussolini in 1939 forbade any Italian to work for a foreign newspaper. Thereupon the Times sent him, first to Mexico City for two years, then to Argentina. There he followed his old, pleasant habits. Only once did one of his articles offend: last August the Argentine Government jailed him for eleven hours, but (he wrote) "throughout . . . treated [me] with courtesy." Other foreign correspondents sneaked stories out (via Montevideo) about the oppressions of Argentine dictatorship. Reporter Cortesi argued urbanely with Argentine censors-but never once tried to by-pass...
...stole the show of the evening with a new diamond. Congratulations, Ensign, and we trust that Margie is duly proud of having ruined your hard-hearted and "practical" theories about women all in one term. At the dance we were also pleased to have a pleasant look at the near future Mrs. Fish...
Said a News editorial: "Jimmy was Mayor 1926-1932; and those were years when New York was a pleasant place to live in. It was a wide-open town, in defiance of the prohibitionists. There may have been some graft changing hands- 'honest graft,' as it was called-but not many people cared. What did matter . . . was that it was fun to be in New York in Jimmy Walker's time. For the last few years, it has been no more fun to be in New York than anywhere else. The war has been partly to blame...
Last week she found herself virtually a popular success. She brought to Manhattan her Appalachian Spring, a pleasant, good-humored ballet with no hidden meaning at all. It was danced on a stark black-draped stage relieved only by the skeletal framework of a house. What was happening in this newest Graham dance-drama (to Aaron Copland's alternately gay and poignant Pulitzer prize score) was comprehensible even to the bored businessman: a bride (Graham) and her groom (Erick Hawkins) built their house in the clearing of a Pennsylvania forest; they had a baby; they entertained a band...
...already engaged to his current leading lady, Lauren ("The Look") Bacall; by his third wife, onetime Cine mactress Mayo ("Sluggy") Methot Bo gart ; after nearly seven years in the mari tal ring; in Las Vegas, Nev. Sluggy 's official charges: "Extreme cruelty." Her unofficial reaction: "A very pleasant mar riage." Died. The Reverend Eric Liddell, 44, Scottish athlete and missionary to China; in a Japanese internment camp. At the 1924 Paris Olympic Games, Theology Student Liddell refused to run his special ty, the 100-meter dash, on Sunday, next day set Olympic and world records with...