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Word: pleasanter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heights Kittredge is one of the few enthusiasms the Vagabond permits himself the wanderer should sometime or other find his way into Harvard 6 any Monday, Wednesday, or Friday morning at 10 o'clock and find the most pleasant combination of Shakespere and Kittredge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

...picture-people as Joan Bennett and James Hall, the cast is distinguished by the presence of an "All-American" football team of 1929, including Racehorse Russell Saunders of the University of Southern California. It contains some fairly funny gags and is in general light-hearted enough to make a pleasant program show Best shot: the All-Americans practicing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 3, 1930 | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

...clanging as the curtain descends and the evening is theoretically a success. It would have been a greater success . It would have been a greater success had Vinsent Youmans provided a better score for the music in this production is woe fully weak. There are one or two pleasant exceptions to the musical mediocrity for instance "Be Good to Me" and the lyrics are really clever. The latter some by Ring Lardner, some by Clifford Grey and Havold Adamson the last of whom wrote the lyrics for the Hasty Pudding Show last spring are consistently good...

Author: By C. C. P., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/1/1930 | See Source »

...GENTLEMEN ALL" is the story of the futile attempts of an ambitious young Southern gentleman, seh, to escape from the pleasant, shiftless life of mint juleps, old nigger retainers, horses, duels, and all the other romantic and lazy trappings that are said to obtain south of the Mason Dixon line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A New Novel for Copy | 10/30/1930 | See Source »

Girl Crazy. The pleasantest interlude in Girl Crazy, a conspicuously pleasant show, is furnished by a quartet of young men sufficiently resembling cowboys who amble across the stage three times in the first act and sing a sweet, lazy little song called "Bidin' My Time (That's the Kind of Guy I'm)." The attraction also contains the best music George & Ira Gershwin have written since Oh, Kay!, an outstandingly comely chorus, talented and virginal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 27, 1930 | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

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