Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...says that lady guests will not be allowed in the Dining Hall. We suppose, giving the Entertainment Committee the benefit of the doubt, that it means for dinner, but then, one can never be sure, and the prospect of waltzing with the Dining Hall, tables is far from pleasant...
...influential names without much spirit behind them, and continual buying of tickets for one's own and one's friends' so-called 'pet charities.'. . . It is a fine thing to be known as a public spirited citizen and it is pleasant to read of one's activities in the paper. ... It is also much easier for some people to lend their names and subscribe a few dollars for tickets than to have to contribute time or thought. However, this is not the kind of contribution the social worker is primarily looking...
...readers will wander through hopeless mazes before they find another such straightforward stretch. More typical is the "Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia": "The days are wonderful and the nights are wonderful and the life is pleasant. Bargaining is something and there is not that success. The intention is what if application has that accident results are reappearing. They did not darken. That was not an adulteration...
...record of his Spanish holiday, written in his familiar brow-wrinkled style, as if he had puffed it thoughtfully out of an old pipe stuffed with a shaggy mixture of Lamb, Stevenson and Conrad. A journalist to littérateurs, a littérateur to journalists, Author Tomlinson is pleasant company for plain readers who like to browse quietly by the side of the road...
Masefield must have spent several pleasant hours of relaxation when he wrote this long short story, for it is an intimate tale. Through its rambling pages runs a strong love of the sea which has produced these bold and impetuous characters. Its loose style proves an excellent way in which to bring out the force of the story. Here is an opportunity to see that a successful author and poet can also be a successful talker...