Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boarding house tutors, however, who have no mimeograph, but only native with, are finding the idea of a New York publisher hourly more pleasant to contemplate. They have always hated monopoly and exploitation of the instruments of production and exchange. And they have always hated them with a closer cordiality in the opulent person of the College Tutoring Bureau. And the cruel professors those who like to go out into the barn and torture the horses, will find similar enjoyment in the bureaucratic dismay. But a Cambridge Plains of Abraham may carry disaster not only to the wolves, but also...
...contemporaries, he has had a divine consistency. One may, like Mr. Chesterton, disapprove of his principles, but he cannot trap Mr. Shaw into applying those principles falsely. A brave regularity in an unpopular position is always an admirable thing, but Mr. Shaw has made it inspiring and pleasant also. He may be, as Lenin said "a good man fallen among Fabians," but he is certainly not as Mr. McCabe once charged so ineptly "quite as entertainer." For to entertain merely is far beneath Mr. Shaw's dignity; he has written entertainingly because he is an entertaining man, and knows full...
...conscientious attempt on the part of the student at self dependence. There have been, of course, men whose thirst for Keokuk or Hartford was so great as to handicap them even in their work, yet for the most part the disease is distinguished by rapid recovery and pleasant convalescence...
...howlers are confounded, and hoist by their own petard; an emasculated Bacchus reigns in the Hub. This lack of the predicted drunkenness has been touted in the papers and by the people; but the fact that the advent of beer was attended by every conceivable trouble save that rather pleasant one of inebriety has been generally glossed over. The control measure itself was passed at the last minute, after the legislators, doddering cheerfully along in pursuit of such problems as the feasibility of serving beer withing 400 feet of a church, had wasted a maximum of time and had thrown...
...Firestone follow suit, and when he did, he cut his cheap tires to mailorder levels. Though the general list-price cut was about 20%, it merely brought quoted prices into line with actual selling prices. Concessions and shading had long ago made the old list-prices a pleasant fiction. Observers last week agreed that Akron's latest upheaval had done little but clear the field for Mr. Firestone and the mail-order tire to meet in single combat...