Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rakovsky, Bolshevik Chargé d'Affaires at London, left Moscow and, after bumping across the continent and plowing through the North Sea, landed at Harwich. His briefcase contained orders for $75,000,000 worth of machinery, textiles, etc. British manufacturers smacked their lips, rubbed their hands and passed pleasant remarks about the weather. Rakovsky said that he could not pay cash and was about to explain about the wonderful harvest prospects when it became obvious that his audience was no longer interested...
...lived on her wages. From there she went to Pittsburgh, where she was a chambermaid in a hotel. The house detective found that she had a prison record, insisted that she be not allowed in the guests' rooms. She was offered a job in the kitchen. "They were pleasant about it," she said. From Pittsburgh she went to Manhattan, arrived with only 43c. The Salvation Army gave her food and a night's lodging for 30c, and the United Charities found her a job in the Contagious Hospital. "New York treated me better than any other city...
Today the members of the Class of 1925 assemble to make merry for the last time as undergraduates amidst the scenes which have become so much a part of themselves during the four years past. "In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind", surrounded by family and friends, the Senior welcomes Class Day as the forerunner of Commencement...
...made the gallery-ghouls of the Metropolitan beat their palms red and had thrilled the tympana of the Diamond Horseshoe-Striving to please, Baritone Tibbett continued his concert three-quarters of an hour overtime. "I gave my best," he said. Bakersfield bankers and merchants agreed that his tone was pleasant, his diction creditable...
...nervous to have a proctor in the room, that he constantly feels uneasy, we have little sympathy. He will have to get used sometime to working under the eye of an employer. The purpose of an Honor System should not be to nurse along incompetents or to make it pleasant and attractive for writing, but it is a gentleman's agreement which lifts a distasteful and annoying burden from the shoulders of members of the faculty and which treats students like gentlemen...