Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Romantic and imaginative to the last degree, Thames Williamson's book is a most pleasant thing with which to while away an afternoon, a tonic after the ghastly realism of many modern authors...
...Breakfast in Bed, Author Thompson's narrative method is centrifugal: her story is less a novel than a series of related pictures, not always in chronological order. But for modern readers who are not easily flustered by cinema technique, A Silver Rattle will be plain and pleasant sailing...
...three days ago this whole question was resurrected from the grave of innocuous desuetude by a waitress, new to the particular dinning hall, who rashly said a pleasant "Yes, Sir" to the orders of the students, and "You're welcome" to their startled thanks. While she did not make an epochal innovation, still she sounded a note foreign to this great country where people run up escalators, and are all too used to gulping hamburgers thrown at them with bombshell velocity at quick lunches and "one-arm joints...
...Since the fighting services of all nations are apt to regard men of the sword as an elite caste apart, no amount of fulmination against Germany last week made life any the less pleasant for Lieutenant von Wick. This spruce young German officer lately crossed the Channel for training with the 2nd Battalion of King George's swank Grenadier Guards, a British officer being "exchanged" to Germany at the same time for study with Adolf Hitler's military elite...
...those who possess a credulous and trusting nature the current bill at the University Theater can offer a pleasant evening's entertainment, but to those whose innate scepticism demands a certain amount of logicality the two movies, "West Point of the Air" and "Shadow of Doubt," will prove rather disappointing...