Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the rise of Hitler and generally of Dictatorship in Europe is a growing trend which makes the Constitution now offered India by Britain positively the country's "last chance for Democracy." In elegant and persuasive terms the speech of the Marquess of Linlithgow presented the positive and pleasant side of these ominous and negative fears. "By the joint statesmanship of Britain and India," said the Viceroy, "there is about to be initiated in this country an experiment in representative self-government which for breadth of conception and boldness of design is without parallel in history. . . . The British people...
What happy individual will have the satisfaction of knowing, when he consults the financial statement of the Eliot House Committee for the year 1935, that the two bucks he thought had long ago vanished into a bottomless pit have reappeared into the happy guise of a pleasant and unexpected contribution to the Elephants' budget...
...watches with bated breath as the Lord and Lady Montague, their nephew Tybalt, and their equally ferocious band of followers come into the square from a different entrance. Voices sink suddenly into whispers and the citizens' nerves are tensed awaiting the result of the meeting. It will not be pleasant...
...side of the franc maneuver last week was a fascinating story in itself (see p. 12). If there was a British story, the British sat on it. In France the Cabinet's charming financial fairy tale was to substitute for such unpleasant words as "inflation" or "devaluation" the pleasant word "adjustment" or in French "l'alignement des monnaies." That is to say, the French Cabinet claims that what is being done is to adjust the franc by reducing its value and aligning it firmly with the dollar and the pound. As in all good fairy tales there...
...husbands of the heroine, offer plenty of support--Lewis Stone makes a good father-in-law or if you need it, relief--to the movie. The love-plot is aided by the top-notch hit tune "Did I Remember," by now a bit past its prime, but nevertheless quite pleasant as Harlow sings it. And the plot, if improbable, is closely woven into an exciting story of spy intrigue and daredevil flying. Unaided by extravagant clothes to emphasize the Harlow curves, the movie is put over by clever acting and good dialogue...