Word: pleasingness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This jury convicted James ("Fur") Sammons, oldtime Moran-Aiello gangster, greatly pleasing the Judge. He, curly-haired, grinning, loud-voiced, obtained much publicity last summer by resurrecting a law of 1874 which provides that anyone unable to earn an honest living may be sentenced to six months on the rockpile...
Artist Brown draws as he talks, crudely, positively, in a manner that admits of no erasures, no changes. He applies color in broad flat washes. Critics find his matter pleasing, his manner undeveloped. They take refuge in the safe expression, "promising."
The Nashville Clearing House's report was from a special committee which had been appointed to meet with members of Caldwell & Co. At the conference was Eugene Robert Black, busy governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. "We believe Caldwell & Co. is solvent," said the report, "and with co...
The Lovely sisters are very pleasing to look at, and, as a matter of fact they are considered to be the most beautiful girls of the troup. There really is no question about that. Why they ever had the name of the Lovely sisters thrust upon them is indeed hard...
"I have no doubt you will be pleased at a British tariff because there is nothing so pleasing as to see your friends follow your thoughts."