Word: pleasants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only possible alternative for such a realignment would be absolute domination of the Far East by Japan. And the World War made this alternative the more pleasant and probable prospect to most Japanese. They already had a characteristic phrase for Europe's war-"Divine Gale" to blow all the white men out of China. Last week the Japanese took out their pretty fans to sharpen the wind. Politely, firmly the Government announced that if other powers wished to remove their troops from China, Japan would be honored to "protect" their nationals and interests. Next move might be less polite...
Earlier Men Sirs: Most people have felt the urge to write their Congressmen or a "Voice of the People" to comment on passing events. What more apt writers of another day might have said today is pleasant conjecture...
...many wars and love affairs, a widower of nearly 40 who had stayed with the Union despite mysterious intrigues with Southern filibusters before the war. Intelligent, discerning, timid, young Colburne let the Colonel walk off with Lillie. She was almost annoyed about it. Colburne, she thought, was "very pleasant, lively and good; but-and here she ceased to reason-she felt that he was not magnetic." The Colonel certainly was. When all four turned up in New Orleans after the Yankees captured the city, Colonel Carter found his playful love affair with Lillie growing serious, married her despite his need...
...This is not going to be easy or pleasant. As to my own position, the work of Senator from Ohio is extremely interesting and I prefer it to any other office. I will not run away from a harder job, but whether I am a candidate for any other office is entirely up to the Republicans of Ohio...
...their chowchow river traffic were the slim little green-and-white bateaux mouches (fly boats), which took to the water during the 1900 exposition, have since ferried some 42,000,000 beer-bibbing, brioche-munching joyriders downriver to suburban Suresnes and back. Three francs (about 8?) bought pleasant conveyance for travelers with business at in-between stops, all-day outings for romancing youngsters, tourists bargain-shopping for local color. Tremulous were the moonlit nights with the sighing of accordion bands from riverside bals musettes, whispery the riverside dingles with the billing & cooing of pic-necking couples. As Bear Mountain boats...