Word: pleasingness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is a chorus of no more than Old Howardly denuded lasses, regularly featured performers at a downtown night club, who go through intricate girations for the entertainment of the spectators. They, more nearly conforming with the accepted standards of entertainment, are the least pleasing unit of the spectacle.
Wholly Pleasing. After a final, driving session with Il Duce in the chair, the put-putting motorboats carried ashore what was called a "pleasant surprise." Almost too smily as they landed and faced the Press and newscameramen, the English and French laughed, chortled, beamed. Apparently in the highest good humor...
Your kindly and understanding comments about General MacArthur will be especially pleasing to those who have taken the trouble to ascertain the facts about his handling of the 1932 Bonus Army. For doing a job well which he was ordered to do, for doing it in person which he need...
The story is a pleasing variation on an old theme. Gary Cooper is a novelist whose literary efforts have suffered through his intimacy with the more alcoholic New York set. Having poured out their substance in Scotch and sodas, he and wife, Helen Vinson, set out for the homestead in...
Broker Pierce is the central, animating force of E. A. Pierce & Co., but it is a woman who holds the system together. Brown haired, feminine, with a sturdy but pleasing personality, Miss Ethel F. Mercereau is probably the most famed woman in Wall Street. She is a Pierce partner. She...