Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pretend that he knew a great deal about flowers, gravely lecturing to lady visitors about a "sprig of wild bigamy." When he identified a flower as "Bishop's Bigamy," even his innocent listeners grew suspicious. "Perfectly happy at the bottom of the class," Gilbert Chesterton dreamed through his pleasant schooling at St. Paul's, producing "on most of the masters and many of the boys ... a pretty well-founded conviction that I was asleep." He went to art school, suffered a period of religious despair and moral confusion before he emerged as a Catholic, an optimist, a poet...
Today, at the end of the post-war era, these first pleasant dreams of permanent peace have been shattered in the chill dawn of reality. For with Spain in flames and the rest of Europe an armed camp, the ideals for which America fought have been dashed to the ground, and the question in men's minds is not of celebration of conquest, but of keeping out of another catastrophe...
...most valuable Boswell manuscript thus far discovered. Last week, 163 years after it was written, Boswell's full Journal was published in the U. S. for the first time. It made a handsome, leisurely, well-documented edition of one of the least stuffy of English classics, a pleasant book for casual readers, a superb one for admirers of the great doctor and his amiable biographer...
There were cheers in the local Coliseum when "Alfalfa Bill" Murray rose to introduce the Nominee as a composite of Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln. James A. Garfield and Calvin Coolidge "plus a pleasant personality." Returning the compliment, Nominee Landon listed the onetime Governor first among famed anti-New Deal Democrats who had espoused his cause, called on "real Democrats" throughout the land to rally...
...Rose Bowl," the second feature offering is an unexpectedly pleasant and interesting picture. While necessarily including the drama of the football field and the eternal triangle Warner Brothers employed able professional players for the scrimmage scenes, and also succeeded in lightening the romance by typical, though well-chosen, sophomoric wisecracks. Though roommates Benny Baker and Tom Brown carry most of the scenes, the same Eleanore Whitney whose star faded so suddenly this summer gives herself a boost back up the ladder in this grid Irony romance...