Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conversation never was so good as it used to be. People as they grow older often grow to think that nothing is quite so good as it used to be--motoring isn't so good as buggy-riding, the winters aren't so cold, the summers aren't so pleasant, the statesmen aren't so intelligent, the politicians aren't so honest, the apples aren't so red and the goose doesn't hang so high. Worcester Telegram...
Actors Laye and Novarro sing pleasant but unremarkable Sigmund Romberg-Oscar Hammerstein II songs, one of which begins: "There's a riot in Havana, a famine in Tibet, a quake in Yokohama. ..." The Night Is Young would probably be less dull if Edward Everett Horton and Charles Butterworth were given more elbowroom for their dependable buffooneries. Driving Miss Laye through the streets in a pouring rain, Butterworth sneezes, says, "Well, the suspense is over now-I know I'm catching cold...
Captain McGregor (Gary Cooper) is a hardbitten, warm-hearted soldier. Lieut. Forsythe (Franchot Tone) is a flip Oxonian, with good manners and a lionheart. Lieut. Stone (Richard Cromwell) is the tenderfoot son of the stern regimental commander (Sir Guy Standing). The three engage in sport and pleasant banter until a rascally potentate kidnaps young Stone and the other two attempt to rescue him. When the potentate puts lighted bamboo splinters under McGregor's finger nails, he makes a face but tells no secrets. Neither does Forsythe, but flabby Stone despicably reveals the whereabouts of a British ammunition train...
...Mount Pleasant, N. Y., Mrs. Hope Hitchcock, answering her neighbors' third court action against her prize English sheep dogs, testified that since the court had told her to get rid of all but a "reasonable number," she had sold 21 of her 40 dogs, quieted the rest by bedding herself in the kennels at night. In St. Paul, an unidentified woman bought an extra seat for the Civic Opera Association's performance of Rigoletto, plumped her dog in it "because he loves opera...
...become a great university, many alumni feel that Rochester needs a great man with a great idea. For such a man and such an idea they turned last week to Alan Chester Valentine. They saw a pleasant, stocky young man with dark hair & blue eyes, a fondness for rough sports, no doctor's degree, and a career of only seven years as an educator. At Swarthmore he had won the esteem of President Frank Aydelotte by playing good football, making Phi Beta Kappa, winning a Rhodes Scholarship. In 1928 he was called back to Swarthmore as an assistant professor...