Word: pleasingness
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M. Danilo Petrovic, Crown Prince of Montenegro until that realm was united with Jugoslavia (1918), entered a cinema theatre in Paris, last week, sat down, composed himself to view lily-fleshed Mae Murray in The Merry Widow. . . . Next day a wrathful M. Danilo Petrovic strode into the office of M...
Le Maire's Affairs. There are those who deplore burlesque in favor of more subtle satire like Americana. Others love display, like Lucky. Some would prefer Le Maire's Affairs, full of crudely ridiculous skits, awkward clowning (by Charlotte Greenwood), amazing absurdities (by Lester Allen), pretty chorus girls...
¶ Pleasing to the Holy See was a despatch from Chile, last week, announcing that the Archbishop of Santiago, Monsignor Crescentio Errazuriz, had so far prevailed on the Chilean Government to modify its Constitutional attempt to suppress Roman Catholic instruction in the schools that hereafter such instruction will be optional...
¶ Last week the President glanced over the preliminary reports of the March income tax receipts of the Department of the Treasury; from Treasury officials he heard the gratifying news that bigger and better returns indicated a $600,000,000 surplus. Forthwith he returned to the pleasing subject of tax...
The present number is labelled "Spring" and indulges in a pleasing shade of light apple green on the cover. I believe there have been many better numbers than this, for the jokes seem to lack that subtlety which is usually the Lampoon's raison d'etre. The funniest of these...