Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Compton Pleasant...
...HuShin of China; the glimpses into industrialism of the future disclosed by Dr. Bergius; and the startling possibilities of the work done in biological chemistry by such men as Ruzicka of Switzerland; are the parts of the Tercentenary to be permanently remembered. The flattery of Boston newspapers is pleasant, the exercises in the new Tercentenary theater cannot fail to be impressive, nor the fireworks on the river exciting, but all these merely reflect an inner pride. They seem small beside this summer's symposium which is the first such gathering of the world's wise men since 13th century Paris...
...Wallace, Resettlement Administrator Tugwell. WPAdministrator Hopkins. Their talk, it was reported, differed not at all from others the President had been having on his tour. At its end Governor Landon left a memorandum built around his 1934 proposals. At his hotel, he assured newshawks that he had had a pleasant and productive conference...
Most notable quality about the girl characters in Spring Dance is their idiom, said to be peculiar to Smith's Dawes House. To be "smit" is to be in love. A "thicket" is what was formerly known as a necking party. "Plent" signifies pleasant. Critics agreed that Spring Dance is "plent" rather than plausible...
Pete was a pleasant-appearing, healthy, realistic Philadelphia boy who grew up in a neighborhood where he never had a chance. He spent a little time in a reform school, was mixed up in a few mild robberies, became a snappy dresser, a smooth dancer, a competent wisecracker, a good fighter who suffered the agreeable misfortune of being pursued by pretty, immoral girls who could not leave him alone. A shifty friend named Slavin got him a job in a bank, but just as Pete was beginning to get ahead, Slavin was arrested for theft...