Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Atlantic, Azara, Elena, Guienerve, Zodiac. Pleasant names. They belong to big racing schooners. John Pierpont Morgan on board his own black yacht the Corsair watched them as they lolled pleasantly among darting little put-puts, just off Sandy Hook. For two-and-a-half hours they lolled and jockeyed now and then; finally along came a breath of breeze and the five big schooners moved toward Santander, Spain, 3,055 miles across the sea. They were racing for the King Alfonso...
...team, a Finnish team, a bearded Russian team, a Negro team, etc., etc. Grandstand sections could be roped off for the supporters of each; in each grandstand section the management would hire a band to play the national songs of its occupants, thus making the scene more noisy and pleasant. A flexible system of points for good dancing and demerits for loafing should be instituted; the team which was leading the marathon on points would have the flag of its nation higher on a tall flag pole in view of all spectators. This would lead to excitement and incipient rioting...
...Hollywood, people talk of a revolution in the cinema industry. Paramount, United Artists, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Universal, Pathe are going to make talkies. Searches are under way to find actors and actresses who make pleasant noises as well as pleasant faces. Oldtime favorites have been tested, classified, told to practice talking before their bedroom mirrors. It is likely that many of the talkies will be filmed in Manhattan and vicinity...
...Louis, like Chicago, has made opera its harmonic pasturage. The municipal company, less brilliant than Chicago's, including no Rethbergs or Martinellis, has a pleasant scheme of giving away many seats and selling many others, thus satisfying all comers. In nine years it has accumulated a surplus of some...
William Miller Collier, 60, U. S. Ambassador to Chile since 1921, announced last week that he had sent his resignation to President Coolidge. Reason: he wishes to devote all his time to his affairs in" the U. S. He said that his duties in Chile had been pleasant and friendly. His successor has not yet been named...