Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Richard Pride, who suffers from a mania for vicarious adventure. Having exhausted all that the modern world can extend in the way of romance, he turns to the dark chamber of his mind, from which he would draw the dark memories of the past. His wife, Miriam, combines the pleasant foibles of satyriasis and astrology, while Janet, her daughter, is a nympholept. Hugh, Pride's secretary and Miriam's lover, and Sally, the West African negress, addicted to voo-doo, complete this attractive menage. But we should mention Tod, the giant police-dog, whose essentially surly nature contributes materially...
...capable correspondent, and it is seldom that anything interesting or uninteresting can take place around Cambridge without its finding its way into the columns of the Herald via Hapgood. His pleasant easy-going style is famous for taking a longer space to say nothing than the style of any other one of the similarly accomplished Harvard correspondents. On some mornings when the official spokesman of the H.A.A. has been especially vague and Hapgood's football story has been exceptionally long. Dick has been known to break down and tearfully confess that, long as the story was, it had been...
...returning from the Christmas Vacation the crews settle down in earnest to prepare for the Torpids. At this time the river is a pleasant sight, though as it can only be observed from the towingpath, and this is infested by innumerable coaches on bicycles, the uninitiate throng might think them homicidal lunatics, it is doubtful if anyone hitherto has lived to describe its beauties. There are some 40 crews to go out and each makes two journeys to Iffley, Lock in an afternoon. A the distance is not more than a mile and a quarter the river is not without...
...shortsighted will deny that the deciphering of ancient tablets is not, in its way, as important as the constant warfare against disease which goes on in the medical school. It it a truism that from the past men may understand the future; it is also a truism, but a pleasant one, that on the empire of a modern university the sun never sets...
...secondary and accessory to the essential qualities of his character and his manner of life. He made a friend of every student who sought him for advice or direction, and gave his time willingly to serve interests not his own. He had the gifts which make social intercourse pleasant,--humor, readiness and felicity of expression, quick appreciation, and the resources of a wide culture at the command of a ready and retentive memory. When he died the world lost much more than one of its great scholars...