Word: pleasingness
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"That pair-you see them?-the one with the dropping mustaches is Curtis,* Republican leader. He came years ago from Kansas, with Indian blood in him. You seldom hear from him. He is all the time behind the scenes patching up compromises, pleasing people. The tall thin man next to...
H.M.S. Pinafore. The Shuberts have done their best in this mass attraction. People who make a religion of Gilbert and Sullivan will tell you that it is certainly the biggest and one of the best presentations of the opera given in these parts for many seasons. It matters little that...
It would never do to impress the authorities with the notion that the spring recess is unwelcome. Anything would be welcome after Cambridge at this gusty indecisive season of the year; but the certainty that it is coming, that it will be like previous spring vacations, that it will not...
More than that: the final value of the new tendency cannot be estimated from debates of this sort so accurately as from argument over the usual type of question. If debate on propositions of a serious nature derives new yigor from these experiments with humor, and questions of importance can...
Let's Get Married. The typical Richard Dix comedy is out as usual. Mr. Dix plays a rich young man with a taste for fighting in night clubs. He is still strong, active and pleasing to the eye.