Word: pleasingness
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The Wages of Sin. Cleanliness is a latter-day worry of Confessions' publishers, the four sons of "Captain Billy" Fawcett. Since building the family fortune on the smokehouse smut of Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, they have made crime pay (Daring Detective, Startling Detective, Dynamic Detective), profited from...
As long-haired and hollow-cheeked as ever, 157-lb. Gunder the Wunder had added an American "O.K." to his vocabulary and, more important, he had a brand-new public-relations approach. Far from being the uncooperative, stubborn Swede who visited the U.S. two years ago, this time he seemed...
By such seat-of-the-pants flying, Alaska managed to provide 28% of the territory's population with passenger, property and mail service last year, topping even Pan American Airways' lusty subsidiary, Pacific Alaska. But Alaska Airlines lost some $60,000 in the process. This was pleasing to...
The tunes, however, especially More and More, Californ-i-ay, and the title song which is caroled in an early American bathhouse, are solid enough Kern, if a touch too operatic for the winter's juke boxes. And Miss Durbin, whose hair has been dyed a pleasing pink for...
To Kuniyoshi, for pleasing the experts: $1,000. To Cox, for pleasing the public: $200.