Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trembling and even Copey, Harvard's beloved Charles Townsend Copeland, looked, up on the invasion of the first-year class as the approach of doom. For with 1,000 lusty throats, as yet unmodulated by the traditions of the College, to bellow "Reinhart" the prospect was not too pleasant...
...HEART-R. L. Duffus-Macmillan ($2.50). Readable, pleasant, but somewhat labored satire on the political upheavals in the Kingdom of East Georgiana...
Having enjoyed a pleasant week of fun including a visit from the officers of the Roosevelt First-Voters Club, President Roosevelt wound it up by taking his entourage to a clambake at Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau's Fishkill estate. Then he entrained for a short visit to Washington and work...
...Aeroplane, No. 1 British aviation weekly, praising his "marvelous work" for the Air Ministry, voicing "indignation" at his dismissal. At the Air Ministry, Civil Servants greeted with sly satisfaction the appointment of a new Permanent Secretary this week who is definitely silky, Colonel Sir Donald Banks, hitherto the pleasant Director General of the British Post Office...
...book, that he had told them about all they wanted to hear. In the shadow of that disadvantage Edith Sitwell last week offered a balanced, well-rounded-study of the Queen that included little new information about her, much expert writing on the sedate life of her times. A pleasant book in its own right, Victoria of England might be judged brilliant if Lytton Strachey had not paved the way for it. and might be considered a more important contribution to biography if its derivations were less plain...