Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editors now speak of Depression as something definitely passed. Registered unemployment is down from the peak of 187,000 at this time last year to 53,000. Taking 100 as the measure of Swedish production in 1929, it is up from 79 during 1932 to 101 today. Typical of pleasant surprises, to which Swedes are now growing accustomed, is the latest report of the State Railways. They were expected to earn 12,000,000 kroner during the fiscal year which began last July, actually cleaned up 15,000,000 kronor in the first four months...
Last week this wise old original was entertaining the wife of neighbor Nicaragua's President Juan Sacasa over the New Year holidays in high, pleasant San Jose. Her departure was an occasion for a parting gift. One of Costa Rica's three railroads had been electrified and had some obsolete equipment. President Jimenez presented Senora Sacasa with two oil-burning locomotives, used but serviceable, for Nicaragua's under-equipped railroads...
...Konetzni to sing heroic Wagnerian roles. Anny Konetzni had been a swimming champion and a contralto, before she went up in the scale. For her debut performance last week she donned the feathers and breastplate of the Walkure Brünnhilde, proved herself a routine interpreter with a big pleasant voice which she had trouble controlling...
Fools Rush In (produced by Leonard Sillman). Last spring Mr. Sillman recruited a number of agreeable young folk from Hollywood, Broadway and the radio, presented them in an informal revue called New Faces. Making allowances for the cast's inexperience, critics found it on the whole pleasant entertainment, chiefly commendable for its impudence. Last summer Producer Sillman took his whole troupe to New Rochelle, settled them in a boat tied up in a harbor off Long Island Sound, put on a sequel called Fools Rush In. Last week he brought it to Broadway...
...even its climax, reached when the hero's mother shows the village elders a lock of his baby hair, are in order. Lacking the tidal-wave sentimentality which made Little Women such an astounding hit a year ago (TIME, Nov. 27, 1933), The Little Minister should nonetheless seem pleasant to the public, admirable to the Legion of Decency and a masterpiece to Katharine Hepburn's devotees. Good shot: Wearyworld (Andy Clyde), the lonely village constable, trying to find someone to talk to as he makes his rounds...