Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flush was a red cocker spaniel of good breeding whose puppyhood was passed in the pleasant English countryside near Reading. Before he was out of his doggy teens he had tasted the pleasures of love and was a father. Then his owner, Miss Mitford, gave him to her invalid friend, Elizabeth Barrett. In his new mistress's home, on London's genteel Wimpole Street, Flush passed into polite and celibate seclusion. Though not by nature a lapdog, Flush sacrificed his roaming instincts and became a devoted stay-at-home, never stirring from Miss Barrett's room except...
From Mr. Hammond and Mr. Atkinson come the reports that "Ah Wilderness" is not what it might be, and that George M. Cohan carries the play by himself, making the evening quite pleasant. The greatest contemporary American play-wright,--so I have heard--Eugene O'Neill, has a difficult task in maintaining his reputation. When he was in Provincetown, he was comparatively unknown. He wrote slight one act plays for a while which still have a few followers. Then came success with a series of popular plays, but he was rarely heralded by critics as the foremost dramatist until...
...public has heard that she is promiscuous. Leander, "Bunny" to Marion, hears that Marion has agreed to write the story of her life, all of it. I say no more of plot, for you will very likely have guessed the logical ending of the first act; it is pleasant to realize that Chekov's type of comedy is still quite popular...
Herr Goebbels, the Nazi minister for propaganda, has not been insensible to the possibilities of this situation. It has been his pleasant fancy to picture von Hindenburg as remarking at reviews of the German army that the Russian prisoners had indeed a military bearing, and as beguiling the tedium of his leisure hours with the games of the asylum. This may well be so. But, lacking as we must evidence of any positive nature, there seems more point to the view that von Hindenburg's collapse has been gradual, and is not yet consummate. There is certainly more hope...
Fortunately he is not called upon to register fear, hate, or pain; emotions that rendered his otherwise pleasant countenance almost unrecognizable in recent pictures. A few more cheery parts like this and we predict that Mr. Morris will be back to stardom once more...