Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scientist eminently well equipped for this study is Carleton Stevens Coon of Harvard, a large, ursine, pleasant-mannered and persevering anthropologist who has spent the past eight years traipsing all over Europe, eastern Asia and northern Africa, photographing and measuring all kinds of people, studying human skeletal material of all ages, and writing a book. This week, while Dr. Coon was vacationing in the Azores with his wife, his book, a richly documented treatise aimed at "the college audience," was published...
Like Amelia, Menotti's new opus, The Old Maid and the Thief, was a farcical satire on feminine foibles. Its plot: a very pleasant, honest tramp so ingratiates himself with an old maid and her maidservant that they make him a permanent guest, even stealing liquor from a neighboring store (the heroine, a member of the town's temperance league, can't buy it publicly) to keep him contented. News that a notorious criminal, of similar description, has just escaped from a neighboring jail disturbs the old maid somewhat, but she reflects that "it is better...
This week, indicative of the plastic industry's continuing pleasant prospects, Chicago Molded is floating a $500,000 debenture issue, $100,000 of which will be used in bonds or in cash to retire its 7% preferred stock. Purpose of the public offering: to retire all outstanding loans, add a modest $120,000 to working capital and plant improvement...
Just turned 77, hale again after his first absence (six weeks) because of illness in nine years, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes last week returned to the U. S. Supreme Court. For his first chore he had the pleasant duty of swearing in the Court's newest and youngest member, ex-SEC Chairman William Orville Douglas, 40. As Franklin Roosevelt's fourth appointee took his seat at the extreme left, he rubbed his nose, smiled at his wife and nine-year-old son, Bill Jr. Deprived while on the bench of his usual cigaret, Justice Douglas nervously twiddled...
Lisbeth's other three men include an impeccable fiancé, an amiable American whom she met on a merry-go-round, a middle-aged Londoner with 152 pairs of red socks, who is mesmerized so completely that even Lisbeth cannot break the spell she casts over him. Mostly pleasant nonsense, Harlequin House is sometimes so addled that a reader is diverted by wondering how Author Sharp can unscramble her puzzle. He finds that she fits it together so neatly that nothing is lacking but a point...