Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening last week President Roosevelt held a pleasant little White House gathering attended by Acting Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau. his assistant, Earle Bailie, Professor ("Rubber Dollar") Warren and Governor Black of the Federal Reserve Board. They let it be known that they were considering the results of the Administration's monetary policy. The Press, sensing important decisions in the making, headlined "Important Gold Conference...
...many years one of my most pleasant experiences has been the reading of TIME. ... In the past if anyone ever said to me in defense of an argument that they read it in TIME that settled the argument for me. However I must admit that in this last year at various times I have been surprised at articles that made me wonder if the good old TIME was operating in its usual unbiased manner. I received this week's magazine today, and I am completely disillusioned. I will not go into the details of the sneering article that appeared...
...women so fiercely laid bare in these pages are by no means the ordinary. A staid couple has committed a murder, and lived on to forget it, remaining quite a pleasant pair. One girl has lived in incest, and ends with suicide. A man loses wife and place because of gross and public cowardice. It is a tribute to the skill of the author that all these themes, so bloody and thundery when related in skeleton, impress the reader of the book as the most natural and commonplace. This fact is perhaps the most convincing proof that Maugham has succeeded...
...girls (tied for first place) were named-curly-mopped Glen L. Sherwood, 19, 6 ft. tall, 177 lb., who has shoulders as broad as any steer's, played on his Larned, Kans. high school football, baseball, basketball teams, does everything around the farm; Clista Millspaugh, 16, of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, who gets up at 6 a. m., milks ten cows before breakfast; Shirley Drew, 17, of Fayette, Mo. who is a freshman at Christian College, Columbia, Mo., has ridden her own horse since...
...time by grinding out words and witty criticisms as if they were sausages coming out of the fastest sausage machine in the world, but interest in his lectures never fags. Although there are a thousand or so slides to be learned in the half-year, this work is quite pleasant and easy if done regularly. No one knows why the reading assignments are so long, but they are comparatively unimportant. The course is on the whole excellent and well worth taking either by the concentrator or by the general student, but there remains the crying need...