Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime Governor Phil, the recognized organizing brain of the National Progressives, held an equally significant meeting with Minnesota's Farmer-Labor Governor Elmer A. Benson. Occasion was a barbecue supper for the two third-party chieftains and some 40 of their friends and associates at a pleasant farmhouse near Hudson, Wis. The meeting on the Potomac looked like simple Roosevelt curiosity. The barbecue on the Hudson farm looked like the beginning of a national alliance, or at least of local modus vivendi, between two once faithful Roosevelt allies...
Lonely White Sail (Soyuzdetfilm). When the Soviet cinema chooses to rein in its ideological high horse, the result is usually a pleasant canter-like this current importation. Set in Odessa at the time of the abortive 1905 revolt. Lonely White Sail tells amusingly, and without overmuch political single-footing, of the exploits of two venturesome small boys, very like Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, in helping a fugitive sailor from the mutinous cruiser Potemkin escape from a police spy. The boyish ease with which they outwit this official indicates that the art of spying has come a long way since...
...colleagues found human emotions a largely unmapped wilderness, its few known contours indicating that feeling's springs feed learning's river. Thus, whether an individual learns anything depends a great deal on whether he has a motive for learning it. One significant test showed that people learn pleasant words most efficiently, unpleasant ones less easily and words about which they are indifferent least efficiently...
...this was a pleasant change for Wanamaker's, it was no less pleasant for the Congress artists, who would like nothing better than to become home furnishers in their line. Unlike the anti-War & Fascism exhibition which the Congress held along with its Carnegie Hall session last December, last week's show emphasized quality. Sculptor William Zorach's Football Player, a lineman relaxed on his haunches, impressed critics as one of the few successful handlings to date of that oddly difficult subject. Artist Marc Perper's Poverty was an unusually solid work of imagination...
Although the regular companion picture, "Romance in the Dark," brings Gladys Swarthout and John Boles in a pleasant, if unoriginal, musical, tonight's special showing of "Paradise for Three" may be more heartily endorsed. Despite the classic angle, dear to the heart of German A, it is good comedy in the best Robert Young tradition...