Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...roistering entertainment in the grand style the Playgoer recommends this year's edition of George White's Scandals, held over through next week at the Boston Opera House. The skits are clever, the music very pleasant, the dancing superb. 75 George White Beauties 75 furnish a background which it must be confessed sometimes oversteps its bounds and becomes the center of attraction...
...reinforce the attack on Ethiopia. They are passing freely now. We are supplying Italy, through the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, in which we are, I think, the largest shareholders, now with the oil used in her bombing airplanes! "I saw the Ethiopian Minister today, and it was a very pleasant conversation I had. These bombing airplanes are dropping bombs on women and children and an English company is supplying the oil!" In the Welsh gnat's audience scores of English mites had risen to cry, "Shame! Shame!" But reports of their emotion left Sir John Cadman unstirred. Blandly confirming...
...apparant. Every man in his organization decided at the end of the war that he "would have nothing to do with war" in the future. The paradoxical rise and power of organizations like the American Legion he traced to psychological causes, such as the tendency to remember only the pleasant things, and to forget or gloss over the more horrible aspects of war. Further developing this psychological thesis, he said that when attempting to outlaw war, attractions such as escape from domestic and financial difficulties at home, and the breakdown of social conventions should be taken into account...
Messiah. A painting of Dr. Townsend stood last week at the head of the stairway to the Stevens' Grand Ballroom and pictures of him sold fast at 50? apiece. With the pleasant-faced little woman who was a widow with seven children when he married her, the gaunt, grey, gentle one-time country doctor moved among his followers receiving the reverence accorded an authentic Messiah. He it was who first had the gleam which promised to give old people ease, young people jobs, drive poverty from the land forever. Since early last summer he and Mrs. Townsend traveling mostly...
...Yosemite- Henry Bourne Joy and Truman Handy Newberry, both born in November 1864. Mr. Joy, whose father formed the "Joy System" of railroads, part of which became the nucleus of the present Chicago, Burlington & Quincy served as Packard's president (1905-16). Mr. Newberry made a pleasant little splash as T.R.'s Secretary of the Navy (1908-09) and a large unpleasant splash a decade later when he defeated Henry Ford for the U. S. Senate, was accused of buying his seat with excessive campaign expenditures, resigned after he had been exonerated. When Mr. Macauley arrived as Packard...