Word: pleasanter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Votes" tells what happens to all good Harvard graduates who drink too much, and as such is a fine object lesson. It is also a very good picture in its own right. Although scornful of the ordinary limits of credulity, its whimsy and human interest combine to make a pleasant, more is at the top of his form, but is closely press-oftentimes moving, comedy. Actor John Barryed by two child performers. They are Virginia Weidler and Peter Holden, Broadway's infant who speaks with the wisdom and dignity of the ages...
Having sound judgment, breadth of view, enthusiasm and a background of good experience, I can offer an employer responsible, dependable, loyal assistance. I would welcome work that offered pleasant conditions, mental activity, and an opportunity to become again a self-sustaining individual...
...looks it. In a way this is a compliment, for most farces of 44 look twice their age. In Wilde's long stage joke of what happens when one young man invents an invalid friend and another young man invents a dissolute brother, there are still pleasant stretches. Lady Bracknell, "a monster without being a myth," is still an amusing snob. Miss Prism is still a funny old maid. And Wilde is still the most brilliant epigrammatist in the modern theatre, though for sustained comic dialogue he cannot hold a candle to Shaw...
Such was Captain Hoffmann's story. "A nice, pleasant trip," said Bello, "except for the storms...
...Yankees burned it 75 years ago. It has a courthouse square, which Mississippi-born Artist John McCrady painted in Town Square (see cut). It has its Confederate monument on which a soldier stands stonily at ease. It has its old families and old legends, its tireless political disputes, its pleasant wooden dwellings, nice lawns, and some of the softest Southern accents in the South. It has new pavements and filling stations painted in tropical colors, new bright-fronted chain stores which are outward evidence of recent community change...