Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Writing a play for Miss Ina Claire must be a very pleasant task. Her physical loveliness, effervescent gaiety, calm sophistication and utter femininity have endowed her with a theatrical individuality which makes it necessary for her playwright only to give her reasonable opportunity to flutter about and be her charming self. "Biography" contented itself with filling this bill and consequently was a diverting and successful bit of lightness. In an attempt to recapture the mood (and the success) of this production the Theater Guild has enlisted the talents of playwright S. N. Behrman, stage-designer Lee Simonson and director Philip...
...have been selected solely in the aim of giving Mr. Behrman opportunity to lampoon radicalism and Freud, two sure-fire sources of sophisticated fun. There is a goodly sprinkling of amusing chatter but the procession moves nowhere, which leaves this reviewer a bit unsatisfied. It would be exceedingly pleasant if one could accept the production as an amusing social comedy but when grave problems are seriously injected, one naturally looks for maturity of thought as well as cleverness of execution. One is thus compelled to note that "End of Summer" is an amusing play which makes the mistake of sliding...
...equipped for the role, with locks as long as Booth's, 70-year-old Hamlet Borah began with the candid remark: "I do not natter myself that I can bring to you any new or startling message. "I am not going ... to indulge in what must be a pleasant pastime, that of regaling one's personal qualifications for [the Presidency]," continued the Senator from Idaho. "But . . . that brings up the most important pre-convention question that we can consider, and that question is : 'Who is going to determine the [candidate's] fitness...
Capitalist. The one remarkable man on the new Board is the governor appointed to the four-year term and designated by the President as chairman. At 45 Marriner Stoddard Eccles is lean, smallish, nervous, intense. In manner he is pleasant, impersonal. Like many another New Dealer he is convinced that in money management lies the salvation of Capitalism...
...Eastern Steamship Lines operate night boats between Boston and New York. At times, the rumour goes, these journeys are indeed pleasant, what with a dance orchestra on board, a bar near at hand, and that freedom of thought and natural disappearance of reticence which the sea air induces...