Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still continue our method of developing geniuses where experience and environment build thoughts and ideas?which hardly can be created in a cold superchamber of the "intelligentsia," so-called. There will always be a varied group of humans?and to suppress the egotistical and so-called dictators is pleasant game for the masses or "rabble." Germany and its Aryan and non-Aryan idea is an excellent example of trying to place human beings on the 10¢ and $1 shelf...
...market. A fee of $600,000 was necessary to persuade the bankers to take it at any price. Hundreds of thousands were lavished on promotion. Out of the goodness of his heart William Jennings Bryan gave 50 bond salesmen special fight talks. Today Coral Gables is a pleasant Miami suburb with a population of about 5,000. Taxes on vast sections of the city are uncollectible and only $329,000 has been paid on its public debt in the past four years. Of that sum, the bondholders got $64,000. The bondholders protective committee got the rest...
...Live For Love" concerns the press agent who must make the theatre star and radio singer amorous when they hate each other and hostile when they love. Dolores del Rio is lovely in white ermine. While the voice of Everett Marshall fails to carry conviction, it is pleasant for an hour's entertainment. Allan Jenkins escapes from city pavements to reach the heights of Nijinsky when he gives his interpretation of a ballet performance...
...most important and pleasant change is that from now on the lectures in Freshman Hygiene will be purely optional. This come and get it" attitude will indeed prove a less potent drawing -card than the whip of Simon Legree, but the fact that those who attend the course will be students with a genuine interest in the subject more than compensates for the diminishing returns...
While "Charlemagne" has some witty lines, and is pleasant enough diversion, one cannot help remembering that Barrie wrote a masterful play in "The Admirable Crichton," and that the French author of "Charlemagne" should have known better than to try to improve on the greatest writer of whimsy the stage has known...