Word: pleasanter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outdoor privy, built last year by the WPA, is decorated with colored reproductions of Toulouse-Lautrec, Laurencin, Chirico. Winters, the Smarts produce plays in Chillicothe's Little Theatre. Farmer Smart believes that the land should be socialized. His farm deficit he makes up by clipping coupons ("much less pleasant than shoveling dung"). But in common with plain farmers he wants to make his farm pay by the sweat of his own brow...
...Deere Wiman). First-nighters at On Borrowed Time ached from applauding. Critics went back to their offices and wrote starry-eyed reviews. Speculators promptly invested in an eight-week buy. But here & there a cold fish issued coldly from the playhouse, willing to admit that it had been a pleasant enough evening, but nothing more. In any case, it had been all about a lovable old codger (Dudley Digges) who saved his little orphaned grandson from the clutches of a prim, pious, perfectly terrible maiden aunt by chasing imminent Death (known as Mr. Brink) up an apple tree and keeping...
...some ways the buoyant, penniless, unbreakable Bronson Alcott-who bounced up and down as good-naturedly as if the path from success to failure was the most pleasant and natural one in the world-symbolized this spirit better than anyone else...
...real understanding and friendship between the two peoples of Britain and Eire." He proposed an all-Ireland parliament, full representation therein for Ulster, and guarantees protecting Protestant minorities. It was a shrewd proposal, for Prime Minister Viscount Craigavon's treatment of the Ulster Catholics has a none too pleasant odor for English nostrils. Having scored in this fashion, Statesman de Valera agreed with Mr. Chamberlain to let the subject drop...
Back came Mr. Dubinsky: "Eliza crossing the ice may not have had a very pleasant journey but, as I recall, she had to make that trip getting away from a none-too-kind overseer...