Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Peru and of a onetime (1909-24) professor at Yale University. He is human enough to set above his mantle framed letters from various "celebrities." Of recent years he has made a sound, tenacious success in politics. His voice, his jaw and his eyes are hard-not particularly pleasant. Therefore, it would have been easy last week for him to make at Shanghai a statement calling for "strong measures" by the U. S. in China. Instead Mr. Bingham expressed so utterly the opposite view that his words had double weight. He said...
...abstaining from solid food, Mr. Kelly came down. First he kissed his 19-year-old bride of six months, who had kept watch on the hotel roof, and hoisted up supplies on a pulley system. Then he prepared to exercise the cramped fingers of his right hand in the pleasant task of signing the vaudeville contract promised as the fruit of his labors...
...epic moment in an epic history. President Lowell can well be proud of the Harvard he has brought to what the ancient Greeks would have called a state of "happiness." Harvard can well be proud of the leader under whose vigorous, yet quiet direction, she has attained such pleasant heights...
...pleasant place to ride...
...McAdoo, for instance, has taken advantage of his position as commencement orator to wave the black flag of the Anti-Saloon League and then attempt to pull a Houdini on his audience by telling them it is identical with the American flag. Such political truckstering is hardly a pleasant foretaste for the graduating Senior...