Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more happy, when, with heart's content, Fatigued he sinks into some pleasant lair Of wavy grass, and reads a debonair...
Along with the other signs of spring, it is pleasant to note the appearance of the annual Princeton poll signifying the fortunate few whom the Senior class names yearly as "most respected", "biggest grind", etc. The practice of bestowing such dubious titles upon a handful of the graduating class has become a tradition like the beer-suits and freshman skull caps; it is a ritual which time has enhanced and which offers splendid opportunities for a mass attack upon some hapless individual who can neither foresee nor alter his lot once he has been chosen "best dressed" or named, "thinks...
...usual, the two outstanding figures were the Congress' President Jeannette Knepprath and Secretary Emma Phaler. A spiritualist, married to a Milwaukee chiropractor, President Knepprath has been handling bowling affairs for 18 years, is still a poor bowler herself. So is Secretary Phaler whose pleasant efficiency ("She is the kind of woman you could run over and borrow a cup of sugar from") has made her the backbone of the organization. A certified public accountant, she sends out the prize money so soon after the tournament's end that the delegates gladly elected her for the fourth time. Despite...
...Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel last week a small, pleasant-faced matron arose to receive a coveted honor. Together with Financier J. Pierpont Morgan (see p. 40), President William Edwin Hall of the Boys' Clubs of America and Columbia's Nicholas Murray Butler, Dorothy Harrison Eustis was given the National Institute of Social Sciences' gold medal for "distinguished services to humanity." Thus recognized by a public body for the first time was a unique educator. Founder and moving spirit of "The Seeing Eye" at Morristown, N. J., Dorothy Eustis for six years has been teaching dogs...
...Esperanto. Well-schooled in the ways of men, mistresses and markets, she never took long to get her bearings. A shrewd bargainer, she traveled and boarded thriftily, got many a free meal from gallant or hospitable foreigners. Whenever her money-belt grew thin she had no trouble getting a pleasant, well-paid job with some rich family, in London, Paris, Antibes, Cairo, Bombay, Barcelona, Madrid. Determined but optimistic, she took the rough with the smooth, enjoyed...