Word: pleasingness
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MR. MAXIM," asked New Haven Carriage-Maker William Hooker Atwood in 1896, "do you want this carriage to look like a Western buggy-maker's job or do you want it to be a gentleman's carriage?" Answered Hiram Percy Maxim, builder of the Mark I Electric Phaeton...
The newly-constituted Harvard Players have concocted a most palatable summer salad of Shakespeare excerpts. Four carefully selected scenes from four different plays, all neatly staged and well acted, add up to an extremely pleasing evening.
Here and there appeared signs of a hesitation that could not help pleasing the Fed's Martin, who recommends reduced spending and increased savings as a check on inflation, even if it understandably fails to delight businessmen. Auto sales were not rising to Detroit's high expectations (though...
Mother of Invention. In Chelmsford, England, a group of eleven-year-olds, examined on the word "luxury" but given only the definition "something pleasing to have, but not a necessity," produced several answers, including "brain," "bath," "kiss," "virtue," "wife."
With so much money to give, a foundation can easily tempt a scholar to distort his work in order to be pleasing ("Of course," says one Midwest political scientist, "professors distort and tailor their project requests. They aren't dumb. If they know the magic words to say to...