Word: pleasingness
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The Vagabond has, in the last few years; become particularly "architecture-conscious", (if he can use such an ill-sounding phrase). He has his reasons. From his lofty tower in Memorial Hall he looks down on one of the most remarkable piebald roofs in America, and the maze of nineteenth...
THE old trite saying that the only really satisfactory anthology is that which the individual reader composes for himself is perhaps quite true. Nevertheless there are anthologies and anthologies and their degree of excellency depends on the discrimination of the compiler and his sense of what selections should be juxtaposed...
The pieces chosen are both prose and poetry and are picked from all periods and sources of English literature. Perhaps the most pleasing prose selections to the reviewer were those from Gilbert White's "Natural History of Selborne," but the favorites will probably vary with each individual reader. It is...
In somewhat different manner the bigger and more serious legislative fight over Drought Relief was compromised last week by Senator Caraway's colleague. Senator Robinson of Arkansas. The day after Senator's Borah's thunderous speech last fortnight for food relief, President Hoover intimated that he might...
In the Roman Catholic Church the Pope appoints bishops, usually upon the advice of archbishops and bishops. The Pope, unquestioned autocrat, may depose a bishop. In the Church of England the King gingerly functions like the Pope; for extreme cause he, too, may remove a bishop. The Protestant Episcopal Church...