Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another interesting group is the collection of short, frequently excellent lyrics which Mr. Craig has chosen. These show the Spanish-Americans in a gay, tipping, gallant mood. One could almost compare them to some of the Elizabethan sonnets and short poems on inconsequential but very pleasant subjects...
Seeking wild escape the Vagabond turned up into the net of quiet which stretches between the river and Massachusetts avenue. Until sundown he paced their pleasant and unchanging lengths, and absorbed in reflection forgot the pricking of spring...
...uncomfortable meeting of father and daughter in the lawyer's office, there is the disowning of the father by the daughter, and there is the final reunion after he helps her out of trouble. No more than that is the plot. But that is enough to make Barrymore pleasant...
...that rare season in Cambridge when Sunday afternoons are also pleasant afternoons, it is grievously unseasonable that Weld Boat House should be kept under lock and key. There are many whose only opportunity to seek the upstream zephyrs comes upon the Sabbath. Others who find themselves free to go a'rowing are turned away, and instead of gliding upon the surface of the river, must content themselves with running around it. The Charles, when it might be covered with graceful cedar craft, maintains an austere and puritanical state of isolation...
Original narratives and more especially the works of Parkman do furnish a few hours of extremely pleasant reading. The work on the earlier Spanish settle- ments probably will not be as pleasant as the diaries of Samuel Sewall and the tales of Morton and "Merriemount", "The roadhouse on the way to Boston...