Word: pleasingness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The picture opens with Fred Astaire late for his wedding, a circumstance that eventually saves him from an unhappy marriage and preserves him for a chance meeting with Ginger Rogers, a ball room instructor. He gambles his way into quite a fortune--in fact gambling eases him over a great...
Now not so long ago in the land of my nativity I happened to pick up a translation of the Psalms. The Psalms done from the original Hebrew in a quite pleasing Latin version. The translation was the work of a completely unknown Dutch dominie, the usual Calvinistic medicine-men...
Once in the chair, Professor van Zeeland read to the Assembly an extremely long and conciliatory note from Italy most pleasing to Britain. It promised that Il Duce will not raise a great Ethiopian army of conscript blacks -the one thing Britain fears, since with it Italy might upset the...
Said the encyclical: ". . . It has been highly pleasing to us to learn of ... the progress which continues to be made by . . . the Legion of Decency. . . .
To people who collect etchings, the name of C. (for Charles) Jac Young is celebrated for scenes of snow. Last week in muggy Manhattan's new air-conditioned Associated American Artists' Galleries, Artist Young presented a show which cooled its beholders with 77 etchings and drawings most of...