Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Bolton now offers a 644-page biography of Kino that brings together the results of more than 30 years of study. It is a strange and pleasant book, complete with maps and long quotations from Kino, in which the story is often interrupted with discussions of the author's own trips over the routes Kino followed. Retracing Kino's steps has given Professor Bolton a feeling of familiarity with his hero. He writes of the great explorer informally as "not a man to cry over spilled milk," of his finding life no "bed of roses...
...agreed, Baby Rodgers' days were numbered. Twice they attempted to remove the nail without a Chevalier Jackson bronchoscope. Both attempts failing, they wrote to Dr. Jackson. He told them to send the child to Philadelphia, that the nail would be removed gratis. Soon Kelvin Arthur Rodgers and his pleasant young mother, wife of a $20-a-week mechanic, were on their way (TIME, June...
...Smith and John Humphrey Noyes, Author Carmer maintains an aloof compassion, avoiding sentimentality as well as the mockery which used to animate Critic Henry Mencken when he wrote about backwoods emotions. In Chautauqua, fountainhead of the adult education movement of 40 years ago, Author Carmer found much that was pleasant, picturesque, inane, a disproportion of old people, a general air of faded, genteel charm. In Lily Dale, centre for spiritualists, he spent the most fantastic day in his life going to seances, listening to spirit rappings, interviewing mediums...
MOTHER OF THE BRIDE-Alice Grant Rosman-Putnam ($2). An adept at pleasant solution of English middle-class family problems, Author Rosman deftly pilots three sets of lovers to a happy landing in a fluffy tale which should meet the clamor for hot-weather entertainment...
...narrates with breath-taking vigor and insight the story of a young man innocently involved in the mad antics of an infuriated mob. Especially noteworthy are the scenes depicting the origin and growth of mob violence and its development into the characterisically American form of the lynching. Not a pleasant experience, but one of such dramatic power and potential social importance that it cannot be missed. Accompanying this excellent picture is a stupid, slow-moving, puerile bit of Hollywood drivel which calls itself "Speed" and commands attention solely for its almost unopposed candidacy for this year's prize lemon...