Word: pleasingness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Albers believes that certain fundamental designs, or combinations of geometric figures, are pleasing to the eye just as a musical chord is to the ear, and that a discord in design is as definite as one in music.
And then they've done some curious things to the good old mellow plot. For one thing, the craze for tracing the life cycle of an opera singer has caught this picture, and Jeanette, before and after wandering about the great Canadian woods, does such things as French operatic versions...
Manhattan, as No. 1 financial city of the Western Hemisphere, leads the U. S. business Press in both quantity and quality The New York Times often allots one-fourth of its entire editorial space to business news. The Times' financial editor is Alexander Dana Noyes. His job, however, does...
Napkins were the chief point of controversy on the Wellesley campus just before the holidays. The old system under which students supplied their own was pleasing no one. The College shied away from an extensive outlay for new linen napkins and at one time considered upping the tuition to cover...
The plot, of course, is neither novel nor amazing, but it does provide a convenient framework for much villainy, horseback-riding, and signing. Unfortunately the songs, although pleasing, are not noteworthy. Miss Swarthout and for that matter, even John Boles deserves better treatment However, Miss Swarthout is thoroughly charming throughout...