Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each of capital and surplus, with over $2,000,000,000 in deposits. Days of trouble followed. Some of Mr. Wiggin's banking clients (Pynchon & Co., Fox Film, German debtors, etc.) had their share of it. Result: the gossip in the market place was not pleasant for Chase officials to listen to. Time came when the Rockefellers felt apparently that the Chase should be run in a far different way. Winthrop Williams Aldrich, Rockefeller brother-in-law, who had been president of Equitable, became chairman of Chase. Mr. Wiggin retired, aged 64, not broke like some others...
...pleasant variation from the general mystery story is the manner in which the various police officers working upon the case help each other and together see the thing through, so that in this story, instead of the one sterotyped super sleuth very nobly carrying on, we have the small group solve their problem by their cooperative efforts...
...Chase, Machado was worth all he got--while in power. Unfortunately, it looked like such a good thing that it will be some time before the Chase, the National, and the American firms recover even the buttons from the shirts they bet there. Imperialism of this nature is very pleasant while it lasts, but the hangover is dreadful. CASTOR...
...story, entitled "Brownstone Front," and several other articles, of which perhaps the most appropriate in an academic circle is "The Case Against State Medicine." The crown is put to an excellent copy by the attractive make up, and by the illustrations interspersed in the text, which are a feature pleasant to the eye and noval in effect...
...move us to abolish it and stop the mouths of its arch prophets. But beneath all of its baroque the Legion serves a peculiar and a useful purpose. Military conscription and World's Fairs conspire with it in showing the yokels a good time, in letting them see how pleasant and inspiriting the habits of the more opulent and urban members of our race actually...