Word: pleasingness
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Also displeasing to Dr. Cumming is the fact that only one out of four country people have adequate, properly organized local health service. He declared that local health service is far more important than any campaign against a special disease. Pleasing was the reorganization of the Hygienic Laboratory as the...
The impromptu scene was edifying. The picture of 3500 "well-groomed decent citizens"--the epithets are culled from the Associated Press--shouting at the top of their lungs to "punch" Lindsey, to "lynch him" is only slightly amusing to the cynic. More pleasing was the image of the battered advocate...
This jury convicted James ("Fur") Sammons, oldtime Moran-Aiello gangster, greatly pleasing the Judge. He, curly-haired, grinning, loud-voiced, obtained much publicity last summer by resurrecting a law of 1874 which provides that anyone unable to earn an honest living may be sentenced to six months on the rockpile...
Last week the New York Stock Exchange and New York Curb Exchange suspended for insolvency the firm of Bauer, Pogue, Pond & Vivian-the seventh such suspension since the bear market began.* Although the firm was of fair size, the action affected only a few stocks, did not halt last week...
Artist Brown draws as he talks, crudely, positively, in a manner that admits of no erasures, no changes. He applies color in broad flat washes. Critics find his matter pleasing, his manner undeveloped. They take refuge in the safe expression, "promising."