Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...book, a novel), Author Bagnold has an English reputation that might surprise those who have never read her. A beauty of the approved English type, she is the wife of Sir Roderick Jones, Chairman of Reuters, No. 1 European news service, has four children, a good stable and a pleasant income. The wonder is that she should have written as much as she has. Before the War she was one of a small artistic set which included Painter Lovat Fraser, Poet Ralph Hodgson, Sculptor Gaudier-Brzeska. She met her husband in France, where she drove a car for the French...
Wholly Pleasing. After a final, driving session with Il Duce in the chair, the put-putting motorboats carried ashore what was called a "pleasant surprise." Almost too smily as they landed and faced the Press and newscameramen, the English and French laughed, chortled, beamed. Apparently in the highest good humor, they announced "definite achievement" and "complete agreement" among the three Great Powers. Some things done at Stresa...
Most effective nude was The Vase and the Maid by Royal Photographer Fred P. Peel in which the body of a standing model is cut by a strange T-shaped arrangement of black velvet. Most banal photograph was A Pleasant Road by Mrs. Rowena Brownell of Providence...
Southern Mammy, by oldtime William H. Zerbe of the New York Herald Tribune, one of the few U. S. newscameramen who are also associates of the Royal Photographic Society. His print was a pleasant unaffected portrait of an old Negro woman puffing a clay pipe, her face gleaming with high lights like a figure of carved mahogany...
...students. Brooks House and the Commuters' Committee have achieved complete success as the result of persistent and intelligent effort; University Hall has also cooperated, ponderously yet conscientiously. The new Center in Dudley Hall should end all agitation for the admission of commuters to the Houses by providing pleasant and comfortable quarters for after-class activity. Unfortunately there will be no library facilities, yet this condition is patently irremediable under present circumstances. On the whole, therefore, one of the major topics of controversy has been very gracefully removed from the University agenda...