Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Collective bargaining without the teeth of the Wagner Bill is one of those pleasant expressions U. S. politicians have used since the steam engine was invented, without ever giving thought to that A B C of government, that there can be no justice without law. and no law without a sanction. Either Republicans of the Knox and Hoover type do not know this, and in that event we deprecate their naivete, or they are insincere in holding out to Labor a palm that is greasy with the stuff from Wall Street that makes the G. O. P. machine go round...
...eight-week trip to the Orient with first-class accommodations for a man and his wife costs some $2,000, is about as pleasant a vacation as there is. It is even more pleasant if someone else is paying for it. Consequently, when Vice President & Mrs. John Nance Garner, with a party of 46 Senators and Representatives, their ladies, sailed away from Seattle last week aboard the American Mail Liner President Grant as the official guests of the Philippine Commonwealth to the inauguration of President Manuel Quezon next month, everyone was as happy as a jay bird with a worm...
...pious work about some Boston Catholics called The Joyous Season. Taking a reef in his belt, Playwright Barry revealed last winter that, simply to make money enough for Producer Hopkins to present his forthcoming ballet, he was about to turn out Bright Star, which was to be as pleasant and profitable as Paris Bound. Bright Star slipped temporarily behind a cloud when tried out on the road last winter but when the lights went down at its Manhattan premiere last week, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, in the fifth row, and Joan Crawford, in the fifteenth row, both sat up expectantly...
...pussy strolled nonchalantly into the Dunster House dining room, to see how college boys dine. A sinister conspiracy was slowly unfolded in one corner. And then a waiter, smiling villain, made for the unhappy cat, skillfully disguising his evil intentions. And now comes the horrible part. He grabbed the pleasant little visitor by the nape of the neck and strode heartlessly out into the kitchen. The Pioneers are anxiously awaiting the product of Mr. Verbeck's infernal machine...
...students these days pursue courses of study with the sole purpose of evading them. Thus escape might appear unnecessary from a routine that is pleasant in itself. But even the best of studies eventually cloys the palate. And in general a fortnight's diversion only whets the intellectual appetites. Harvard is the only shepherd to drive home his flock in the middle of New Year's week. Two full weeks at Christmas-time, including as they would the additional week-end, would be a most welcome extension and at the same time a most conservative allowance...