Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...several other countries, will really produce much imprint on minds either young or old. Tours carefully planned to include the greatest possible number of cathedrals, picture galleries and museums; hotels crowded with other Americans; shops bearing the sign: 'Here English is spoken'-all these things are very pleasant and entertaining, but it may surely be doubted whether they lead to that understanding of the mind of another nation which must lie at the basis of international understanding. "This is not the kind of education needed by Americans today...
...Patsy Ruth Miller). Long has Director Ernst Lubitsch been acknowledged master of film comedy. Working with an ordinary plot, he has now excelled himself. Hubby's innocent little lies, wifey's tiny peccadillos grow into impressive embarrassments. The originality displayed in screening this commonplace business assures a pleasant surprise for cynics who have resigned themselves to the belief that the only formula for film fun is custard pie and an abused Ford...
...Brisbane, 62, wrote: "Marvelously ugly, completely bald, physically feeble, spiritually a giant, it is pleasant to know that D'Annunzio is happy in his old age, and that with genius, as with common men, there is no fool like an old fool...
...Paris, "Excuse me," said a masked man to two pop-eyed U. S. girls crouching in their hotel bed. "Excuse me, I'm no burglar; it's a bet." The girls, breathing rapidly, blushed furiously. The voice was so pleasant. "I wagered $400," continued the mask, "that I would enter your room. If you'll turn out the light. . . ." Suddenly collecting herself, one of the girls snapped the switch, "I'll go." A black shape glided out the window; the two girls lay whispering for hours. In the morning, a house detective found a velvet mask...
...have privately offered a loan of $5,000,000 to the Bulgarian government with which to build roads, and to have secured the concession to open a motor car factory in Sofia. Thus the Bulgars will have double incitement to buy Fords, often jocosely called "road bugs," for pleasant travel in their craggy country...