Word: pleasanter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make no claim to be the legal adviser of Mr. Hoover. I have done professional work for him, but it was of no great importance. I resent the implication that I am Mr. Hoover's closest legal friend. . . . My relations with Mr. Hoover have been very pleasant. . . . I have never discussed the sugar tariff with Mr. Hoover. I have discussed the sliding scale with Mr. Newton. . . . Some people might think that what Mr. Newton said was the same as what the President said. . . . I have never received any directions from Mr. Hoover. . . . You must realize that this...
...this Verdi wrote songful dramatic music which 80 years ago had great success. Last week it was stamped by most listeners as pleasant, old-fashioned stuff significant only because it gives a hundred hints of the later, greater Verdi. Distinguishing feature of the performance: the sumptuous singing of Soprano Rosa Ponselle, prevented by a severe throat affection from appearing earlier in the season...
...convict has escaped! At Oakmere Pool lies the dead body of a man, stripped to his underclothes. . . . Thus this thriller, in the somewhat old-fashioned English manner: plenty of atmosphere and a well-defined trail, with the red herrings a little brightly colored. Two characters stand out with pleasant eccentricity: old Mr. Hubbleby, who spends the daylight hours of his vacation riding to and from London on express trains, sleeping at home every night; Pithecanthropus Smith, who is no believer in Sherlock Holmes. Says he: "Detectives frequently have to ask questions which seem impertinent at first, and prove irrelevant...
...pleasant evening in the fall...
...catch him would heartily like to see him dead. Somehow as he whirls, blindfold, away from his trapeze, with no net below, he has to find a way to keep the other chap from dropping him. Deft adaptation and direction by George Abbott make the little story pleasant up to this point, and the tenth-of-a-second shot of what the acrobat does next welds it into drama. Its drawbacks are Buddy Rogers' continuous ingenuousness, occasional flat lines, overacting by the "bit" characters, and the fact that its central situation is frankly appropriated from the great German film Variety...