Word: pleasingness
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"Oh The Pity Of It All"--Columbia recording. Enric Madriguera's polished orchestra has a very smooth and pleasing melody to work on. Helen Ward and Bub Burnch sing. The backing, "True" is good as a Fox Trot for dancing, but the tune is not very catchy.
John Charles Thomas has probably never realized that even singers should be ambassadors of good music. If publicity was what he desired, he could have donated the proceeds to a local institution, thus pleasing those who had spent time and money to come and hear him (TIME, Jan. 22).
In Germany, where Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels tries to make all news-organs play the same tune "like a great organ of many pipes," Organist Goebbels seemed unable to make up his mind about Roosevelt money, permitted a divergence of expression unprecedented since he...
"Jimmy and Sally," the other attraction at the Fenway is a pleasing but rather unimportant bit of the usual James Dunn whimsey-whamsey somewhat decorated by the presence of Claire Trevor.
Of all his strange disciples the one who has caused Mahatma Gandhi the sharpest pangs of dismay is plump & pleasing Nilla Cram Cook, 23-year-old daughter of the late George Cram Cook, Iowa poet. At 19 Nilla Cram Cook married a Greek nobleman. Three years later she was converted...