Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now, When My Baby Smiles at Me) which at best gives them the pleasant frenzy of a circus calliope. But this one seems to take all the wrong paths. Even the Technicolor scenes are draped with heavy shadows that obscure the more interesting characters. The best that can be said of the show is that Gale Robbins and June Haver, both pleasant to look at, do some nice singing and dancing, whenever they get the chance...
...release, Crosby's voice and hairline are still intact. He sings an excellent selection of Irving Berlin tunes--"Easter Parade," "Be Careful, It's My Heart," and, of course "White Christmas." The result is like a greeting card: it has no art and no subtlety, but it's pleasant...
...pleasant fact that the University plans all meals two weeks in advance, down to the very last cabbage leaf. So why don't the dining halls list the breakfast menu along with the lunch and dinner of the day before, and post both outside the dining hall? With the menu outside, undergraduates heading for bed at outrageous hours may make a reasoned decision and be sure whether or not they want to rise for breakfast...
Although the temperature outdoors these days is considerably below this pleasant level the caretakers over at Hemenway gymnasium must try to maintain a constant 70 degrees every afternoon from 2:30 p.m. on. Coach Jack Barnaby and his squash team swing their stunted tennis racquets at the little black ball and expect it to bounce back with a normal velocity...
...Yale has not eliminated the Big Three," Tighe said. He added that he hoped it would continue "in fact as well as name, because it is a pleasant tradition." Tighe said he knew nothing about the Penn system of State Scholarships. "If we had to compete against proselyting, we just wouldn't compete...