Word: pleasingness
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Such facts are pleasing to seamy-faced Dr. Gabriel Davidson, who last week rendered his 30th annual report as general manager of the Jewish Agricultural Society. Established in 1900, the Society is still backed by a fund set up by Baron Maurice de Hirsch (1831-96), the great German Jewish...
Not once in his address did the Austrian Chancellor mention the Fuhrer by name although he referred in eulogistic terms to Benito Mussolini, who originally advised Schuschnigg to go and bargain with Hitler. He firmly announced that the German Government had engaged itself to respect the political and territorial independence...
Joan Fontaine's performance in "Maid's Night Out" comes as a pleasing contrast. Although vaguely reminiscent of the old Hal Roach comedies, it presents in a sprightly way the adventures of a playboy turned milkman (Allan Lane). The plot may be weak, but the lines and fine character portrayals...
Second daughter of Boston's famed Brain Surgeon Harvey Gushing, Betsey quickly became Franklin Roosevelt's favorite daughter-in-law. Not so rich as Franklin Jr.'s bride, Ethel du Pont, nor so young as John's fiancee Anne Clark, nor so athletic as Elliott'...
"If that proposal be not pleasing to the American Federation of Labor we offer the alternative proposal that on the first day of February 1938, the entire membership of the American Federation of Labor, horse, foot and dragoon march into the Committee for Industrial Organization. . . ." After a little chuckle, he...