Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...digress no longer, "The Silver Swan" is first-rate musical entertainment. It is the only commendable "operetta" we have seen in several moons. It has much better than average singing, catching tunes, and a pleasant eyeful of costumes and sets. The humor is well carried off by Florenz Ames, assisted from time to time by the above-mentioned Mr. Woods. As the leading lady Myrtle Clark is all that could be desired...
...play, excellently presented, which while it does not make its audience reach for the handkerchief to wipe away tears either of sympathy or of laughter, nevertheless supplies just enough of both comedy and charm to keep each fresh, and afford at the same time a very pleasant evening's entertainment...
...lawyer, has never deeply regretted the fame that came to him when he tagged his name upon the National Prohibition Act. It was a nuisance, of course, when intoxicated traveling salesmen called Mr. Volstead up in the middle of the night to curse him, and it was not altogether pleasant to feel that a large portion of his fellow countrymen regard him as a wizened fanatic. But Mr. Volstead has surmounted these drawbacks...
...large thick man, full jawed, pleasant-faced, Col. Grant will be 48 come Independence Day. His father was Maj. Gen. Frederick Dent Grant, son of the Soldier President. The Colonel was graduated from West Point in 1903, did the usual round of foreign duty, married the daughter of Elder Statesman Elihu Root. He has three daughters of his own, but no U.S. Grant IV. In the War he was a member of the U.S. General Staff Corps, on the official fringe of the Paris Peace Conference...
...Truesdale of Manhattan. She has tired of eating meals grown cold by waiting for a tardy guest. And she sympathizes with young businessmen who go to parties and have to be at their offices the morning after. Said she: "Things have gone so far that it's not pleasant. We're not enjoying it. The young men are not enjoying it, and certainly the hostesses aren't enjoying it. Being late came into fashion but it's getting so that everybody comes later and later. As things are now you're invited...