Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high-flown language of the day, the purpose of the book is set forth in the title pages: that "young gentlemen may read many pleasant fancies and fine devices, and thereon meditate divers sweet conceits to court the love of fair ladies and gentlewomen...
...April 15, those in the audience will soon realize it is the rare wine, the sparkling champague of other days that is being tasted, rather than the heavy bodied liqueurs which are usually expected from classicists. Indeed, the presentation for wide-spread attention of the lighter, the more pleasant, the human side of those who strolled by the Tiber is a laudable endeavor, "quo quiddem opere quid potest esse pracclarius...
...have had particularly fine fishing at Caicos. Large kingfish, groupers, mackerel and barracuda. We are now proceeding on Potomac to Mariguana Island and will try the fishing there before sunset. Having fine weather and pleasant seas...
...After pleasant run last night we are anchored off Little San Salvador where we will fish and swim this afternoon. Leaving tonight and expect to arrive Nassau about 10 tomorrow morning...
Leaving Albany is a pleasant inconvenience for Dr. Parran. The year Governor Roosevelt called him there he, a widower with four small sons, remarried, and took a big white farmhouse in the hills at Castleton, N. Y.. overlooking the Hudson, ten miles south of Albany. The grounds include a pear and apple orchard, the pruning of which he made one of his hobbies. Other diversions: hunting, riding, training red setters, splitting firewood, baking waffles to eat with Maryland scrapple. Sunday the whole family decorously went to mass in the Roman Catholic Church of the village. After mass the whole...