Word: pleasingness
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Not for a moment had Jimmy Kilroe considered fudging his figures to keep the crowd-pleasing champion in the race. He had pored over his form charts like any careful bettor, studied past performances, and decided that Nashua needed every ounce of 132 Ibs. to bring him back to the...
He made a brave try at mediating between them during the Boston Tea Party, was almost mobbed for his pains. His thoughts turned to the home country he had never seen and the greater glory to be gained there. On the eve of the Revolution, Copley (who hewed to the...
Joyce White's Svanhild was too reginal and cold to elicit sufficiently ardent passion to make her choose between a temporary lover and a permanent husband; but she has a pleasing voice. She should learn to control her unconscious mannerism of underlining important words with little negative twitches of the...
Samuel Pepys, speaking of the recorder, wrote in his Diary, "the sound of it being, of all sounds in the world, most pleasing to me." He would have found further support for his conviction in the concert of Renaissance and Baroque chamber music presented before a capacity audience in Paine...
Among the actors, Winifred Heidt as Mrs. Sally Adams flopped around the stage without a suggestion of the poise and verve that Miss Merman gave the part. Rene Paul was dull but adequate as the supposedly suave Cosmo Constantine, Robert Mesrobian showed a certain degree of comic talent as Sebastian...