Word: pleasingness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cinemaddicts who do not consider that any performance by a child actress constitutes cruelty to adults may be pleased with the demure wrigglings of four-year-old Shirley Temple. Among other features of Stand Up and Cheer are two U. S. Senators (Mitchell and Durante) who proceed from an argument...
When interviewed (possibly at a into hour) on the pleasing coincidence of interests, Senator Thomas is reported to have expressed a feeling that there is no reason why silver should be less an object of speculation than wheat or gold. This is a very beautiful thought, indeed, but it is...
A few lectures are devoted to Harvard history, a field in which Mr. Morison is undisputed master. These hours are particularly pleasing as much time is spent in retelling the life of the undergraduate of two centuries ago. Fine tales of college pranks a la 1700 told in an inimitable...
I am seriously thinking of proposing to our Mission Board that a school be established somewhere in the North for the purpose of training intelligent and devoted young men and women for work in the cultural and religious wilds of the deep South. . . . Perhaps our expensive personnel could be withdrawn...
Income tax receipts were almost exactly what he had expected. The tariff had proved to be a gold mine, bringing in ?17,000,000 more than anyone had estimated. General business improvement accounted for most of the rest. But what really brought the surplus to such pleasing plumpness was that...