Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pleasant London of the right, tight little British ruling class is such a small place that what goes on quickly reaches the ears of everyone who matters without benefit of newspapers. There was no need last week to advertise that No. 18 Cadogan Gardens is for sale. Still less need to explain this little fact's large significance. It meant that esteemed Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who in his lovable way makes from time to time such disastrous bumbles, had decided to call back into the cabinet "The Man Who Was Right...
...remember something other than the shots he himself had inexcusably wasted-a 3-ft. putt on the 14th, a pitch into a bunker on the 15th, making his last round a 73 instead of the 71 it should have been-Cooper last week would have had food for pleasant recollection as he cast back over his opponents' failures...
Members of the National Assembly could stay in hotels at $4 a day or a tent colony at $1.50. Those who chose the latter shivered at first, later found it a pleasant enough spot with its Army tents, mess tent and assembly tent which had done circus duty. According to one of its inmates. Rev. Charles Jarvis Harriman of Philadelphia's Episcopal Church of St. James the Less, the camp cost $600 as against preliminary estimates of $4,300. "God guidance is the answer," said Mr. Harriman. "We did not see how we could afford several thousand dollars...
GREEN MOUNTAINS TO SIERRAS-Zephine Humphrey-Dutton ($2.50). This record of the transcontinental motor tour of a Vermont painter and his wife makes pleasant reading, except for an occasional lapse into coyness. The Humphreys traveled for the winter on the price of their usual coal supply...
Still in circulation is the pleasant little story of an energetic House dance chairman, and his attempts to have the last House dance of the year go down in history. It has, indeed, attained wide celebrity, but not quite in the manner intended by the publicity-conscious chairman...