Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author Nathan's deft, gently ironic fantasy-now working as smoothly as a zipper-shows to its usual advantage. He has not forfeited the compliment once paid him by Louis Bromfield. "There are," said Novelist Bromneld of the works of Novelist Nathan, "no books in the world so pleasant to read just before turning...
During the War, this pleasant musical association was interrupted, but with the signing of the armistice, Pattison and Maier resumed their plane association, and continued to give their joint recitals for the next 12 years. Meanwhile, Maier began indulging in his pet ambition to give concerts for children. Out of this ambition grew the novel "musical journeys", which consisted of interesting sessions with the composers and music of great countries. These musical lectures, designed particularly for juvenile entertainment, kept Maier busy both in the delivery of them, and in gleaning new material for them. With the advent of Government sponsored...
...most pleasant places in which the Vagabond has found to study is the Sociology Library on the second floor of Emerson Hall. He discovered it the other day in an attempt to locate some of the volumes which he understood were to have something to do with his midyear exam in Sociology...
Italian mothers last week babbled these pleasant tales of motherhood to Benito Mussolini in his big office. They were representative of the 94 big winners in his More Babies Contest who have had 727 children (7.7 apiece) in the last eleven years. Each received from the Dictator last week five crisp new 1,000 lira bills, and to an Italian peasant 5,000 lire is a great deal more than its exchange equivalent in the U. S. ($263). Each also received a paid-up insurance policy. Of the 94 champions one is an Italian noblewoman, mother of seven...
...First Englishman to Fly in England," past president of the Royal Aeronautical Society. In his Who's Who entry, Colonel Moore-Brabazon lists his recreations as "golf, tobogganing, yachting." Last week he was engaged in another kind of recreation which took the form of a very pleasant altercation-not only typically British but typical of the well-ballasted wit of the man of science anywhere-with Professor Edward Neville da Costa Andrade, F. R. S.. F. Inst. P., D. Sc., Quain professor of physics at the University of London, editor for physics of Encyclopedia Britannica, author...