Word: pleasingness
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Once in the chair, Professor van Zeeland read to the Assembly an extremely long and conciliatory note from Italy most pleasing to Britain. It promised that Il Duce will not raise a great Ethiopian army of conscript blacks -the one thing Britain fears, since with it Italy might upset the...
Said the encyclical: ". . . It has been highly pleasing to us to learn of ... the progress which continues to be made by . . . the Legion of Decency. . . .
To people who collect etchings, the name of C. (for Charles) Jac Young is celebrated for scenes of snow. Last week in muggy Manhattan's new air-conditioned Associated American Artists' Galleries, Artist Young presented a show which cooled its beholders with 77 etchings and drawings most of...
¶ To act under the flexible tariff law to boost the duty on zippers, thereby pleasing two loyal Democratic Senators, Guffey of Pennsylvania and Lonergan of Connecticut, who have in their constituencies the two big U. S. zipper makers.
The University is basing its claims this week upon two diverting features and a reasonable suspicion that exams sharpen the movie-urge. The featured attraction is "The Garden Murder Case" with Edmund Lowe doing a good job as Philo Vance. It's clever and only slightly predictable. The companion piece...