Word: pleasantly
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Death, as it must to all men, came last week to Cass Gilbert, 74, architect, in Brockenhurst, England. Had not a sudden heart attack laid him low in a bedroom of pleasant, rambling Balmer Lawn Hotel, he, his wife and daughter would have left in two days for Southampton and the U. S. Behind him Cass Gilbert left many a great building to keep his memory alive through many a long year...
Looking, talking and acting like a benevolent John Bull, Percy Bullen was the dean of British correspondents in the U. S. In 30 years he produced some 11,000,000 words of copy-"more," he proudly observes, "than in the Encyclopedia Britannica." His professional routine was more pleasant than that of the average newshawk. His office was above his apartment in a penthouse a few doors off lower Fifth Avenue. There every morning he would digest the daily newspapers arranged for him by a secretary. He might go out to luncheon with a banker, or speed to Washington...
Here at the Plymouth this week we have one of those problem plays that take place in the bosom of a family none too pleasant to start with, and which before the curtain has dropped has suffered one seduction involving two marriages and a suicide, not to mention a few minor unpleasantnesses...
...pleasant note is added by the fact that Yugoslavia is said to be massing troops on the border to prevent the ingress of the Bulgarian radicals, most of whom are said of he anti-Yugoslav. By this time, the moves in a fascist coup d'etat have become so routined that the Yugoslav variant is more than welcome...
Replying to an enthusiastic ovation at the beginning of his lecture in Government 1 yesterday, President Lowell said in part: "Nothing is more stimulating than to lecture before a class of young men like this. I am going to leave this pleasant work and take up the most difficult task in the United States. The American college is being attacked on all sides and for all sorts of reasons. Many educators say that the college and the other departments of the University should be distinct and separate: I do not sympathize with those ideas, but I do know that...