Word: pleasingness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Formed in Manhattan last week was a National Committee "to Lift the Onion Eater from the Category of Social Lepers." The Committee's plans were tentative. Said Secretary A. W. Lockwood: "Some want to educate the public to enjoy and preserve the aroma of onion, which they feel is...
Loretta Young always has a sad look in her eyes, and in this picture it is somehow more effective when she is being rushed by a dozen caballeroes than when she has lost her husband. Altogether her presence and her hearing and her acting are highly pleasing. Don Ameche and...
For poor patient Griselda is cruelly tried and her reaction to her grievances too spiritless to be pleasing even to the medieval ear. She swears obedience to the husband who has promised the death of her first born son and daughter:
Wearing his familiar navy-blue beret, offstage Fisticuffer Johnson told newshawks he thought old friends like Geraldine Farrar, Lina Cavalieri and Lucrezia Bori were as pleasing to the eye as the artistes of the current season. Of Tetrazzini, whom he considered the greatest woman singer, Mr. Johnson remarked, "They'...
* As pleasing to Boston-type trusts as it is irritating to other business is the Revenue Act of 1936. Specifically exempted from both income taxes and undistributed profit taxes were" mutual" trusts which pass on to their stockholders all their net income including gains from the sale of securities. Since...