Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thomas H. Stephenson '37, president of the Debating Society, carried off the speaking honors as he gracefully glided through three minutes of pleasant drivel about the Old Howard, Landon-Roosevelt political backwash, and speaking from the monument at Radcliffe...
...Transcript. His political experience was acquired as newshawk and editorial writer for the New York Herald Tribune where he thumped long and loud against Philippine Independence. His first political victory was won four years ago when he was elected to the Massachusetts legislature, his great name and pleasant boyish manner netting him a whacking big vote which was repeated two years later...
...over a great many of his obstacles. And the effect on the audience is very pleasing, because it saves them a lot of worrying and figuring out how he can get out of this or that scrape. "Swing Time" offers anyone with a sense of humor a very pleasant evening...
Most of us like the balm of a little sentiment scattered sweetly here and there throughout the length of a serious movie, a kind of salve to smooth the rough edges of the plot; but literally to take a bath in the ointment is neither pleasant nor logical. And such was "To Mary With Love." It was a bathtub of sentiment, and it was neither pleasant nor logical...
...pretending to be in love with a penniless college boy, Pete (Gene Raymond), whom she pays to masquerade as an objectionable French count. Sole variation on this time-honored theme is that Pete is also a crooner seeking a job in radio. This gives him opportunity to sing several pleasant new melodies (Cabin on the Hill-tot), Let's Make A Wish, My Heart Wants to Dance...