Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such a dramatic upheaval can be indeed pleasant to ponder over, but it does not seem in the least likely to occur. Some explanation for this may be that the Lowell regime was not as stuffy, narrow-minded, and conservative as the wiseacres tend to make out. President Lowell himself declared that he preferred to be called a conservative because he could then be as progressive as he like, and no one could object; As far as personal tastes are concerned, he was as well acquainted with the subway as Mr. Conant...
...motherwit and social presence to get along with Mr. Ganson and to steer a safe course among the shoals of Dorchester's provincial-artistic society. When Musician Arenkoff was appointed conductor of the Phil harmonic Orchestra, John was told off to help him get settled. This was a pleasant enough job, and when Arenkoffs wife Nina arrived, John adored her at sight. Nina was intense: she often wept quietly for hours because life was so sad. She was also very beautiful and (according to Author Horgan) intelligent. Her principal fault was the fault of angels - ambition; she could...
...hours to nothing and doubled my wages. That is perhaps something off the minds of the present Administration." He explained how he spends his time in retirement: "I get up fairly early and take a look from the Palo Alto place into Santa Clara Valley. It's very pleasant. Then I have breakfast and a walk. Then I get my mail and look over the newspapers. Then I take another long look at the valley, thanking Providence I'm in California. Then I sit down and think things over and spend the rest of the day laughing...
...Shediac, N. B. en route with his seaplane armada back to Italy, General Italo Balbo cut with silver shears a red-white-&-green ribbon across what formerly was Pleasant Street, where he first set foot on Canadian soil. It became Balbo Avenue...
Like many plays of its type, Double Harness has the major fault of trying to make an arresting problem out of a painfully apparent fallacy. Nonetheless, pleasant interiors, good clothes and two smooth performances by its principal actors help make it inoffensive comedy drama until the last reel. This, which has almost nothing to do with the rest of the plot, concerns a strange dinner party at the Fletchers. One by one the guests are called away by drunkenness or domestic emergencies. The cook fights with the butler. The guest of honor sits down alone with his hostess. When...