Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pleasant young women who are graduate nurses and serve as hostesses on U. S. airlines are a fixed institution of the air and are considered a profitable investment by their employers. U. S. railroads, long addicted to the Negro porter as a factotum, have seen the signs of the times...
...authority which Warner Brothers have developed in the technique of sociological exposures. It is handicapped by a stenciled love story which has Jameson (Pat O'Brien), San Quentin's tough yard captain, in love with May Kennedy (Ann Sheridan), the sister of the prison's least pleasant inmate, Joe (Humphrey Bogart). However, the yard captain's sentimental dilemma does not seriously retard the drama of the changes which concrete walls make in the lives of men who have to stay behind them whether for professional or punitive reasons. Druggin (Barton MacLane), a bear cat for discipline...
...pleasant is it to find an inaccuracy in TIME'S able, accurate reporting that this reader hastens to point out that honor is not given where honor is due in TIME'S report of the Russian Moscow-Vancouver flight [TIME, June...
...yacht Nahlin which was leased last year by King Edward VIII for his cruise with Mrs. Wallis Simpson. Said His Majesty: "She is a beautiful vessel, one of the most splendid afloat. I need relief sometimes from State duties, and can think of few more pleasant ways of recuperating one's energies, or refreshing one's brain...
...Housman could not get across his rather innocuous message by way of the English stage, he was able to do so in his novels and stories. One of these (Housman's favorite) was a mildly ironic, long-winded, pleasant phantasy called King John of Jingalo, which he wrote 25 years ago. Long out of print, it is now offered to U. S. readers because of a supposed similarity to the case of Edward VIII. A closer similarity is the one between its plot and that of Bernard Shaw's The Apple Cart...