Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against four by "traditional"' architects, each pair designed to meet the needs and income of an actual U. S. family. By this presentation LIFE hoped: 1) to inform its readers of how easily any family earning from $2,000 to $10,000 a year can build an efficient, pleasant home; 2) to poll its readers on the relative popularity of the two types of home building...
Dealing with the story of early New Amsterdam life as seen through the eyes of Washington Irving, "Knickerbocker Holiday" is delightful only so long as the author contents himself with a certain ingratiating naivete; unfortunately Mr. Anderson was not content to leave the pleasant subtlety of his first act as the underlying essence of the whole production. Evidently he did not think his audience would enjoy drawing their own parallel between the pleasantly autocratic regime of Peter Stuyvesant and the government of today; before the comedy has run its course, the simile becomes more and more obvious...
...flute-playing career that wound up in the ranks of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Meanwhile, he studied composition with Composer Wessel at North western University, later in Europe. His prize-winning symphony, which will be performed this winter in Manhattan, he describes as "absolute, dissonant, and, I hope, pleasant...
Eugene Smith Austin, Mount Pleasant, Tennessee--Hay Long High School...
Executive director is Mrs. Elizabeth Ames, a dynamic, partly deaf, pleasant-featured puritan, now in her early 40s, who combines the social talents of a worldly hostess with the shrewdness of a corporation executive. Yaddo is something like a swanky monastery. Most guests sleep in The Mansion. Working quarters are private studios hidden in nearby groves. Breakfast is at 8:15. Box lunches are delivered to the studios. Until four, no visiting is permitted, and then only with special permission. At dinner, in The Mansion's dining room, six tables accommodate the guests, who are shifted frequently to freshen...