Word: pleasingness
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The purist will protest the many loose ends. "Love in the Snow" is fraught with many incongruities in book, in setting, and in score. The play at times becomes a revue, with an irrelevant but pleasing dance sequence interlarded between several ballet numbers. But the customer who comes to be...
Now members of the mission, with growing uneasiness, were privately applying their knowledge to U.S. cities, to see how they would withstand an atomic bomb. The prospect was not pleasing. Experts, including leaders of the Manhattan Project, believed that buildings of timber or brick would be smashed or burned. Manhattan...
For $197.20, a Manhattan department store (B. Altman & Co.) last week offered its customers a sizable musical anthology. The store wrapped up 42 record albums in one package "for pleasing the typical family." Some blossoms in the fat bouquet:
The present featured attraction at the Savoy is a brand new eight piece outfit fronted by ex-G.I. tenorman Jackie Fields. Jackie will be remembered by the ancients for his work with Newton's old band, which also featured Vic Dickenson and Arthur Herbert. The group is still rough...
"When I was shot down Roosevelt had just died, and we had a mental image of the new president sitting at the piano admiring a movie actress' legs. We're mighty relieved to read in TIME that Mr. Truman is doing a real job and pleasing almost everyone...