Word: pleasingness
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For most people pottery is too familiar an accessory to life to have much importance. Tiles, plates, saucers, cups, flower pots, vases are so necessary they are commonplace, manufactured and bought by the million. Normal purchasers exercise a natural regard for what is pleasing in pottery, but to select pottery...
St. John Ervine provides a quotation for the title page of Sewell Stokes' new book of interviews "Pilloried!" to the effect that "every man in this country should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To hear nothing but what is pleasing to one is...
Brown gained an audience's decision over Harvard last night in Holden Chapel in a debate marked by a careful arrangement of the speeches and a pleasing informality of presentation. Those who heard the contest were few in number, but took a real interest in the argument, and at the...
Pleasing to II Duce was the deed of one Signora Neriva Cavassa of Bologna who, last week, gave birth to triplet sons and named them "Pio," "Benito" and "Vittorio Emanuele," after Pope, Dictator, King.
It was not Mr. Candler who originated Coca-Cola. Its inventor was one J. S. Pemberton, who, in 1886, made the first Coca-Cola in an old house on Marietta Street, Atlanta, Ga. During its first year Coca-Cola sold only 25 gallons and had for its outlets only Atlanta...