Word: pleasingness
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"A weak, ineffective son of a futile family escapes from the flatness of their life by getting a job as "bellhop" in a hotel. He is good-looking and of a pleasing modesty--his only virtues--and his "personality," as they say in business, brings in easy money and speedy...
Two temples of chaste white marble impart an Attic quietude to one side of Princeton University's central campus, back of Nassau Hall. In days gone by, vast quantities of glutinous flour, hose water, impossible eggs, red paint, mustard and sick fruit have hurtled against their immaculate facades what time...
Dispassionate observers could find little to add to these two pronouncements. Taken together, however, they provided much solid food for thought, and an excellent opportunity for congratulating Count Volpi upon his success in apparently pleasing both his major creditors fairly well. The New York Times might scoff: "Both Great Britain...
The impression made by the written monuments is reenforced by the art remains. The larger speciments, as bas-reliefs and statues, many of which have found their way to the museums of Europe and American, are annalistic in character, giving in pictures, as the written records do in words, the...
The third saving grace is Mr. Nick Lucas, the so-called crooning troubadour, who appears much too briefly with his guitar and all but stops the show. The music otherwise is tuneful, if not epochal. The song "A Girl in Your Arms is Worth Two in Your Dreams" is good...