Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past months have been brilliant with scientific achievement; vistas have opened up which dazzle the mind's eye, concepts which confuse the weary brain. Interspersed among these rich rare offerings is the common salt of ingenious inventions, pleasant practical devices which immediately add to the flavor of everyday life. They are concerned with: Clothes. Textiles are nothing but interwoven fibres of wool, cotton, linen, silk. The fibres are cheap enough but the weaving process is costly, making the cloth expensive. In Ireland Inventor B. M. Glover of Bruntcliffe, near Leeds, has devised a machine which turns...
Yesterday the Prince spent packing his playthings for some more pleasant intrigue in a different country where the parental authority would not be so very stern. He thought of America, but that was very far away and he wanted to be near his cherished Rumanian throne. France was not particularly friendly; neither was republican Germany: Soviet Russia was not at all to his taste. Some small country was more congenial, and he found the very one in Belgium...
...From Boston to newspapers elsewhere went the following quotations: "It was a very sociable luncheon party. President Coolidge joked and laughed. I never found Mr. Coolidge a particularly quiet man. I have always found him a real, honest-to-goodness fellow. The luncheon on Tuesday was a very pleasant affair. The conversation was largely about mutual friends. He talked with me as with an old friend. The President did not talk politics at all. The President appeared to be very well. Mrs. Coolidge looked first rate. She was a charming woman, as she always was. The fact is that neither...
...like Dorrie, had a longing for and a misconception of the East and its people. Dorrie, to be sure, is perhaps the kind of girl who would be pleased if someone called her a dreamer of dreams. But so, almost certainly, is Author Powell; and it is very pleasant, now, when most first-novelists are either rabid and wild-eyed sophisticates or intellectual inverts with empty heads, to read what has been written by someone who is neither ashamed or proud of naivete, who carries in her mind the torture of youth more brightly than its touch. The book...
...entertainment, a greater number than the original concert boasted, to be sure; and with the additional attraction of Alfredo Casella, who last year gave the concerts a new significance, the Pops seem assured of yet another successful season. Forty-three years are none too many for such a pleasant institution as these concerts have proven themselves, and it is to be hoped that they will survive to see many another birthday...