Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shall leave." Slightly annoyed, Anna meets her neighbor Jean, a taxi driver, and tells him her woes. Anna and Jean appear to be fond of one another; they quarrel; they settle their petty grievances in a doorway. The rain that had scattered the jubilant throng stops. Life is indeed pleasant. But there is a harlotish-looking friend of Jean who drops into his room and insists on staying for the night. All very innocent, of course, for Jean leaves, but when Anna goes to visit him the next morning, she can not help seeing women's clothing in his room...
...Beauty Products" is another business enterprise in which girls sing, dance and tub. The opulent proprietress (Thelma Todd) and a pretty salesgirl (Dorothy Lee) meet two preposterous persons (Bert Wheeler & Robert Woolsey) who sell flavored lipstick. They dance a lively ballet in a stranger's office, plug a pleasant song: "Keep On Doin' What You're Doin.' " Admirers of the agonized smile of small Wheeler and the brisk dignity of cigar-chewing Woolsey will relish the automobile race which they win after a cyclone whirls them up into the snow-covered Rockies...
...make academic life at Cambridge more attractive President Conant last week called attention to the problem of faculty housing. He would make masters as comfortable as their luxuriously-housed pupils. Said he: "It is no longer as pleasant or easy to live in Cambridge as in many other university communities." A placid suburb 25 years ago, Cambridge is now a bustling city of 125,000, circling the university in a tight-clenched grip. Pleasant residences have steadily grown scarcer, more expensive...
...Smith (Dorothy Gish) that they separate for a week, he hopes to encounter adventure. Instead he encounters a wench whose Junior League manners lead him to believe that, like the Smiths' governess and cook, she is a depression product, too good for her position. Ellen Smith encounters a pleasant Scotch explorer with a deep burr, who, while he seduces her, teaches her the proper way to brew tea. When the Smiths reassemble, Ellen wears a wise smile but Henry's relief at being home outweighs his curiosity...
...Then Kerry began to see death. His first ambush was not so bad. The massacre of Black & Tans herded into a cell was worse. When he was a witness of the cold-blooded shooting of pretty Kitty Brady it was nearly too much. But when he was given the pleasant job of guarding beautiful Lady Moira, a hostage, Kerry took a new lease on life...