Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Buchman, the team included a one-time Scottish Communist, a French marquise, the Copenhagen tap dancer, the Bishop of Rangoon, an admiral, a British M. P., a daughter of the Governor of the National Bank of Egypt and a Burmese lady who told correspondents: "My name means cool, calm, pleasant mist." Between good dinners and spiritual lobbying in Geneva, Dr. Buchman took 50 members of his team on a flying trip to Berne. There in the Parliament House awaited President Rudolf Minger flanked by his cabinet...
...room in banking, finance, and the tariff. In it will be found the classics in these fields, together with the best writings of the recent past relating to these subjects. Homesick students may be comforted at learning that "It is hoped that this room may be used as a pleasant retreat by those who desire to read quietly and comfortably in the fields of banking, financial, and tariff history...
...State Penitentiary at Angola, La., James Beadle was serving a life sentence for his part in the murder five years ago of James LeBouef whose body was found in Lake Palourde. To his cell word was brought that his son, Pleasant Beadle, 17, had drowned in the same Lake Palourde trying to rescue Liberty LeBouef, 16, daughter of the late James LeBouef...
When Aristotle in The Nicomachean Ethics pointed out that boxers find "the crown and the honors" of victorious combat pleasant, but that "receiving the blows they do is painful and annoying to flesh and blood," he expressed an attitude toward pugilism that has been held by most of the writing men since his day. The 37 authors whose fragmentary observations are included in Boxing in Art and Literature seem as a rule to approach it with a strange air of mingled respect and disdain, as if striving to find some intellectual justification for the pains and punishments they describe...
...Jules Remains' Men of Good Will, it is also the dominant note in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, in Marcel Proust's The Remembrance of Things Past. Even the cloistered Henry James, at the outbreak of the War, wrote that to consider that the peaceful, pleasant pre-War years had been secretly building up to this horrible climax, was "too tragic for any words," stopped writing, died. For European intellectuals the War meant more than the end of amiable illusions under which they had lived. The very problems that had occupied them- feminism, modern art, social...