Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...homage to Mussolini. . . . He has done immense good." At the Vatican devout Joseph Aloysius and Enid Lyons, who in Scotland had been jeered by a handful of irrepressibles as "Papists!" knelt before the Supreme Pontiff. His Holiness imparted the Apostolic Benediction and observed, "We still preserve a most pleasant recollection of the great triumph of the Church represented in the Eucharistic Congress at Sydney, Australia" (TIME, Sept...
Last September U. S. Diplomat Hibbard took one of the least pleasant assignments in a career which had taken him from Poland to Peru. Only difficulty he was spared was the presence of a U. S. Minister at Monrovia. Charles E. Mitchell, the last to hold that post, had been retired because of the prolonged lack of recognition of Liberia. As Charge d'Affaires. Mr. Hibbard had spent long days in polite palaver with Liberian kinkywigs, long nights swatting mosquitoes and tropical vermin. Finally he proposed a deal: Mr. Firestone would cut interest on his Liberian loan from...
Grace Moore has, most critics agree, a smooth pleasant voice, a pretty face, a fine figure, an abundance of vitality and a driving ambition. She ran away from finishing school in Washington, D. C. to go on the stage, against her parents' wishes. She made a Broadway name in the Music Box Revue. Aspiring to Metropolitan Opera, she had a potent friend in the late Otto Kahn. Most critics were indifferent when they heard her there. But she stayed three years, studied hard, paid the claque well. The Metropolitan label proved a sure entrée to radio...
...More Ladies (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) shows Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery and Franchot Tone, a variety of white chromium modernistic interiors, a welter of cynical badinage over cocktails and cigarets, the complications of rich idle adultery. It is a pleasant, witty time-waster...
...FRUIT SIGNERS-Algernon Blackwood-Button ($2.50). Fantasy of a little girl who lives with her father and her black cat, peoples her house with pleasant imaginary companions...