Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrecked the sloop Marie Elise. The Nahuas had been hospitable. The English, said the old men, help one fight and leave the seed of warriors. The witch-doctors had been unable to save poor Sam, but Eph and Roger became chieftains and left the seed. Life was pleasant: Nahuan wine was tasty, honors were plentiful, women were silent and prolific. Roger, however, found everything in this Carribean land maddening to his touch, lukewarm; and Eph yearned for Susannah, for pumpkin pie, for quoyhaugs. They had left, had spent a year in New Orleans, and had shipped for Boston...
...your pleasant review of my latest novel you make the statement that "In real life people never talk so wordily to the point." Are you sure of that? It is a modern and popular dictum, but I doubt it. I would like to make a dictaphone test. I admit that in crowded and busy places, New York, and so on, conversation is mostly reduced to a minimum, but even there it can be found, and, oddly enough, particularly among those whose novels are distinguished for shotgun brevity between characters. Investigate that point. As to the rest of the country, where...
Mellifluous sentiment oozes from the mouth of Lionel Barrymore. It is a pleasant shock. Only once in his performance as the unselfish country doctor does he resort to his hair-pulling act. "One Man's Journey" depicts the life of a generous rural physician who struggles and struggles to amass enough money for research work. When he has the opportunity to go to the medical center in New York, he is detained because little Letty McGinnis swallows iodine. At the end we see him still struggling in the country. "One Man's Journey" is not an epic...
...Harvard Athletic Association in 1931," continued Bingham, "made an agreement with the Army Athletic Association to play four games through 1935. This agreement was made by Harvard with full knowledge of the Army eligibility rules. The Harvard Athletic Association looks forward to continued pleasant relations with the Army...
Catherine Howard, the prettiest lady in the court, is in love with young Thomas Culpepper, but she still thinks it would be pleasant to be queen. Henry, in love with Catherine before his marriage to Anne of Cleves, marries her after the divorce. These are Henry's gayest days. "Life has found its meaning," he tells his court one night on his way to the Queen's room after a day of hunting. When it becomes apparent that the meaning is a love affair between Catherine and young Culpepper, there is only one thing for the king...