Word: pleasingness
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While Messrs. Teagle and Seubert were glaring at each other, Standard of New Jersey made an announcement which was immensely pleasing to Mr. Seubert. It reported earnings for 1934 of $45,619,000 against only $25,000,000 in 1933. Mr. Seubert was pleased because his company owns 1,778...
Mrs. Neilson's programs had apparently achieved the astonishing feat of pleasing both mothers and children. Chief characters are a tribe of invisible creatures, "very, very thin and streamlined," who are known as Orgets and come from The-Land-We-Know-Not-Of. Mrs. Neilson was a small girl...
His first sermon having been satisfactorily Fundamentalist, Pastor McComb last week faced another test-reception by the liberal Presbytery of New York. Gathered in Fifth Avenue Church, 100 laymen and ministers began by cautiously examining Mr. McComb as to his theology and character, so cautiously that one minister chided them...
There is a chorus of no more than Old Howardly denuded lasses, regularly featured performers at a downtown night club, who go through intricate girations for the entertainment of the spectators. They, more nearly conforming with the accepted standards of entertainment, are the least pleasing unit of the spectacle.
Wholly Pleasing. After a final, driving session with Il Duce in the chair, the put-putting motorboats carried ashore what was called a "pleasant surprise." Almost too smily as they landed and faced the Press and newscameramen, the English and French laughed, chortled, beamed. Apparently in the highest good humor...