Word: pleasingness
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With a billion-dollar wheat crop in prospect in the U. S., the Department of Agriculture predicted last week that total farm income this year would top $10,000,000,000 for the first time since 1929. Industrially the picture was still more pleasing. Second-quarter earnings reports would be...
Cinemactresses outshone peeresses among the sitters. Outstanding was a tight, minutely painted portrait of Merle Oberon by famed Engraver Gerald Brockhurst for which Miss Oberon paid ?2,000 (see cut). More pleasing to the British public was toothsome Jessie Matthews in oils by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale (see cut). Also in...
Tears mixed with ink often result in a sticky substance resembling treacle. Though the formula would not be recognized by a chemist, it is well known to some popular writers. And there is nothing so pleasing to some tastes as a good mouthful of treacle. Gene Stratton Porter was an...
The trend of events in California served to prod liquor men into searching more quickly for a new front man. Because the late Forbes Morgan's close tie with the White House had caused comment, Chairman Brown and colleagues last week were looking for someone not too closely identified...
The quote continues, "Princeton men are usually very sociable and pleasing. Williams men are very nice, though not as glamorous." The "snooping reporter" was baffled by the subtle mellowed-with-learning phrase "saturated with Boston," which the young girls applied to Harvard men, and unfortunately took it as a n...