Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago Franklin Roosevelt discovered that Rexford Guy Tugwell had a negative propaganda value. Thereupon Dr. Tugwell's pleasant face was given a veil of political invisibility. Hence few people were last week aware that he was in Florida on vacation, recuperating from an attack of influenza. But Secretary Wallace knew. So did AAAdministrator Chester C. Davis. And many another was to become acutely conscious of the fact...
...been married a year. Sidney, 25, was a musician. Doris, 21, was four months pregnant. Seeking light amusement they chose the Hollywood Pantages Theatre where a film called Imitation of Life was showing. Warmed by the picture's exaltation of mother-love, the Preislers were in a pleasant glow when it came to an end and a Universal Newsreel took its place...
...News," commendable as its new policies are, has in this respect, we believe, stumbled upon the fallacy common to so many of the half-baked "progressive" educators whose main trouble is that they want, in education, a pleasant diffusion of superficial information. Daily Princetonian...
...flora and fauna offered little novelty, Mr. & Mrs. Martin Johnson, who have spent the last decade taking pictures of it, tried this time to introduce an experimental touch by ''exploring" Africa by air. Equipped with two Sikorsky amphibians, they conducted what seems to have been an eminently pleasant junket, stopping from time to time for close-up views of zebra, cheetah, lion, trout, elephant, man and finally a colony of unscrupulous baboons...
Iowa is a pleasant city of 61,000 souls. Last week when suicide figures for 1933 had been tabulated it was found that Davenport, as it had in 1932, led all U. S. cities with a rate of 40.3 suicides per 100,000 population, almost double the average of the nation...