Word: pleasantness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smart not to drink, or smart to have a private bar, or not smart not to have one, was not explicitly stated by Publisher Conde Nast's smartchart House & Garden, in the September issue of which, with artful photographs and over the captions "TO PROMOTE A PLEASANT PASTIME . . .DECORATION ENTERS A NEW FIELD," appeared the following descriptions...
...from the brilliant. Two photographs they observed in particular. From one smirked a dull, stupid face with drooping lips and averted, timid eyes. Surely, said most of the examiners, this man must be a moron. In the other was a man with a straight glance, a high forehead, a pleasant expression. Here, said the examiners, was kin of genius...
...haired; Dr. Uhrbrock made known the guesses of his 603 scrutators. Most of them had gone far astray. Some 75% of the men and 81% of the women picked the owner of the "moron" face for a stupid oaf. Yet he had scored high in the Thorndike test. The pleasant-faced man was a dullard, had scored low in the test. He was adjudged acute by 70% of the men, 78% of the women...
Many a magazine publisher would be quick to accept such a pleasant proposition. It would solve the question of obstinate news-dealers who put his magazines on back racks, of adverse distribution situations, of competitively owned news-agencies. Just such a proposition became an actuality last week, but only for one publisher, a new publisher. This is how it came about...
Twenty years ago this week Louis Bleriot, Frenchman, flew the first airplane across the English Channel, from Calais to Dover.-* Just now Louis Bleriot is in Paris receiving plaudits for the anniversary. From Paris he will go to London for more plaudits and a pleasant sight-a model of his plane prominently displayed in the historical aviation exhibit of London's International Aero Exhibition, which the Prince of Wales opened last week...