Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Immediately the conference began, seasoned White House reporters were aware of a new atmosphere of pleasant informality. They could recall friendly expressions of "cooperation" which opened their dealings with Presidents Hoover, Coolidge, Harding, Wilson; but not such cordial warmth as this. Presently they learned of a more important innovation. President Roosevelt intended to answer questions-not only written questions, but impromptu verbal questions popped to his face. He would try it, he said, despite advice by wiseacres that no President since Theodore Roosevelt had been able to keep...
...essential to young female cinema stars are: 1) looks, 2) ability to wear clothes, 3) ability to act. Katharine Hepburn looks, as most promising cinemactresses now do, faintly like Greta Garbo. She wears sleek clothes with severe insouciance. She acts with intelligent assurance, speaks in a strong, flat, curiously pleasant voice with the inflections of a polite upbringing in Hartford, Conn. Miss Hepburn did her first acting at Bryn Mawr, where she graduated in 1929, acquired the defect of talking too fast. Among other requisites for a U. S. Garbo, she has greenish eyes, red hair, second-hand car, distaste...
...French pictures, but the lines (we are told) are hilariously funny. The brief travelogue preceding the feature dealt with Chartres, Laon, and Rheims in an unsatisfactory Fogg Museum way--old stuff none too well presented. The Harvard wives (who comprised a majority of the audience) had a very pleasant afternoon...
...question were simply one of conviviality and the pleasant life, tutors and students alike might preserve a passive attitude without any serious consequences. But the distinction between resident and non-resident tutors was certainly intended to be more real than is implied in a mere use of House accommodations for board and lodging, and an occasional timid glance into the common room. Great care was exercised in selecting a well balanced staff of tutors for each House to provide appropriate cultural leaven. But this can become practical only through the easy association for which the House dining halls give ample...
...saved, the dastardly murderer of Alphonso Pettijohn is handcuffed by detective Hawkshaw in the nick of time, pure Nell and honest Jack clasp each other in a tender embrace, and an audience worn out with hissing the villain and cheering the hero leaves the Peabody Playhouse mulling over the pleasant taste of the nineties left by the Stagers' presentation of "Gold in the Hills, or The Dead Sister's Secret," a twentieth century conception of nineteenth century melo-drama...