Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obnoxious as is "nigger" to a Negro, and with equal reason, since it is an expression of ignorant racial contempt on the part of the self-styled superior Anglo-Americans. . . . The term "greaser" is very seldom used out here. . . . Spanish American people of the Southwest . . . are as friendly and pleasant a people as one could ask for and being mostly very lean, they are far less greasy in appearance than some of the so-called Nordics...
...other feature, "The Richest Girl in the World," contains Miriam Hopkins for whom we have always kept a sneaking admiration. This time she finds herself in another pleasant but ineffectual story where mistaken identity brings her suitably to the brink--but just to the brink--of emotional disaster. Nevertheless, that subtle leer in Miss Hopkins voice is still a better bid for seduction than the weapons of most of her contemporaries...
...Justice Department got a tip that Nelson, who had been hunted in the Chicago area for some six weeks, was heading for a house near suburban Barrington, Ill. Two by two. in fast new Hudsons. agents of the Department's Chicago division rolled out for the chase. Together went pleasant, round-faced Inspector Samuel P. Cowley, 35, and clean-cut Herman E. Hollis, 28. Both were graduates of Washington law schools, both participants in the catching & killing of Dillinger. Cowley had also been in at the death of Charles ("Pretty Boy") Floyd (TIME, Oct. 29). Hollis had been at Spider...
...happiest time jor all people, they say, Is always the start of a brand new day. The end of the day may be pleasant, it's trite. Still our minds are fatigued and we're glad the day is through. But morning finds millions of minds fresh and clear, As bright as the sun in the sky, my dear. Tell 'em in the morning if you want them in at night. Let 'em see that morning paper, then you just sit tight...
...solid anti-new dealers, like myself, this little farce on the current situation in this great country of ours provided more than a pleasant evening of entertainment. That master card, Smiling Jack Benny, friend of all the little boys down whose throats Jell-o is forced each evening, is the real clown of the show, playing the part of the poor banker just out of Atlanta after a five year vacation there for his noble deeds in the great days of '29. With him as co-partner is a man who threatens to replace Victor Moore as the typification...