Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...predicting that stock prices will become inflated. I recognize however, that the stockmarket provides an inviting field. . . . Here we can have inflation in an insidiously pleasant form, under the guise of visible, day-by-day 'profits.' . . . Like a thin spot in a tire casing, the stock-market might conceivably become inflated the more, because of the inflexibility of other parts of the structure to which inflationary pressure is applied...
Sylvia Sidney does well as the girl-whose brief fling in a world of muscles and cold showers makes her long for a little bad ventilation. And Ernest Cosart is an exceptionally pleasant butler...
...open market that would yield them 4¾%. So he proposed to sweeten the new bonds with the privilege of converting them into Central common stock at $25 per share. Since Central stock once sold above $200 per share, this conversion feature was calculated to give the bonds a pleasant speculative flavor...
Since If Memory Serves is a formless book, with Sacha Guitry's imagination ricocheting from one pleasant memory to the next, omissions are less important than they would be in a straight autobiography. But the references to Yvonne Printemps, his wife and co-star from 1919 to 1932, are surprisingly sparse, limited to a passing remark that Sarah Bernhardt witnessed their wedding and a brief account of their U. S. triumph. He says nothing of their divorce last year, of his triumph with his new leading lady-lovely, dark-haired Jacqueline Delubac, now the third Madame Sacha Guitry...
...toned hall, dimly lighted... The musty reek that lingers about dead leaves and last year's ferns... The epitaph: "Go tell the Spartans ye that passest by, That here obedient to their laws we lie"... View of John Weeks bridge from Duster at dusk... A little child relating a pleasant dream... A lovely girl in evening clothes descending stairs... Percy Granger's "Country Gardens"; the "Song of India"... A direct blood transfusion between friends... We roofs beneath the lamp light... Polished brass knockers on doors of dull dwellings... The Charles river at sunset... Professor Whitehead lecturing; Professor Lake reading...