Word: pleasingness
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The combination of good Georgian which, after all is a classical derivative with good classical stuff is a very usual one in American architecture of the early part of the nineteenth century. Pleasing results were often achieved notably in the country houses in Virginia to which Mr. Jefferson added porticos...
There is a sort of humor, somewhat fantastic pleasantly inconsequential, of which the undergraduate is a past master. The Lampoon often indulges in it, we know, especially, it would seem late in May. Perhaps the Ibis has been well assuaged with strawberries, or has found the evenings along the Charles...
Usually we take delight in the Inkling page, but this time we felt rather disappointed. The authors of the longer prose pieces, for their part, have mostly directed their efforts at the University, an excellent thing, for supposedly they know it well. And after all, a place filled with absent...
That left the Dollars as ship owners competing with themselves as ship operators for the Government (the Admiral-Orient Line), another situation which they did not like, even though the operating losses of the Admiral-Orient Line cost them not a cent. Nevertheless the Dollars wanted to own the boats...
UPROOTED - Brand Whitlock - Appleton ($2). You see them wherever you go but especially in Paris and on the Riviera-the uprooted ones, the people without a country, This is not a realistic book about them, for it is full of happy endings, special cases. Yet you can imagine, or you...