Word: pleasingness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The cinema has a special category for what it calls "prestige pictures." Made with an eye to pleasing serious critics, these productions are intended primarily to stimulate the self-respect rather than fill the purses of their makers. Prestige pictures are such films as The Green Pastures, Winter set, A...
This pleasing picture of NLRB impartiality is not shared throughout the land. The three-man Labor Board-Chairman J. (for Joseph) Warren Madden flanked by two men named Smith, Donald Wakefield and Edwin Seymour (no kin)-is generally rated proLabor. And NLRB's many enemies say this pro-Labor...
With a billion-dollar wheat crop in prospect in the U. S., the Department of Agriculture predicted last week that total farm income this year would top $10,000,000,000 for the first time since 1929. Industrially the picture was still more pleasing. Second-quarter earnings reports would be...
Cinemactresses outshone peeresses among the sitters. Outstanding was a tight, minutely painted portrait of Merle Oberon by famed Engraver Gerald Brockhurst for which Miss Oberon paid ?2,000 (see cut). More pleasing to the British public was toothsome Jessie Matthews in oils by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale (see cut). Also in...
Tears mixed with ink often result in a sticky substance resembling treacle. Though the formula would not be recognized by a chemist, it is well known to some popular writers. And there is nothing so pleasing to some tastes as a good mouthful of treacle. Gene Stratton Porter was an...