Word: pleasingness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a jilted member of the socially elect stands drunken outside the church in which his erstwhile sweetheart is being married to a wealthier rival and proceeds to vent his bitterness in witty remarks about the holy ceremony, it is only fitting that a poor shop-girl standing by should...
THIS sprightly offering from the pen of Paul Morand attempts to capture the flavor of today's Paris, and set it down for the edification of cosmopolitan and Philistine. Most of the comments concern street scenes, the markets, coster-mongers, cafes, street fairs, flea markets, gardens, and children. Fortunately, the...
While Messrs. Teagle and Seubert were glaring at each other, Standard of New Jersey made an announcement which was immensely pleasing to Mr. Seubert. It reported earnings for 1934 of $45,619,000 against only $25,000,000 in 1933. Mr. Seubert was pleased because his company owns 1,778...
Mrs. Neilson's programs had apparently achieved the astonishing feat of pleasing both mothers and children. Chief characters are a tribe of invisible creatures, "very, very thin and streamlined," who are known as Orgets and come from The-Land-We-Know-Not-Of. Mrs. Neilson was a small girl...
His first sermon having been satisfactorily Fundamentalist, Pastor McComb last week faced another test-reception by the liberal Presbytery of New York. Gathered in Fifth Avenue Church, 100 laymen and ministers began by cautiously examining Mr. McComb as to his theology and character, so cautiously that one minister chided them...