Word: pleasingness
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As for the play itself, it is neither very light nor very heavy. The management bills it as an ingenious comedy of the artistic temperament, which perhaps it is, if you know what they mean by that. Assuredly there is nothing either very vital or very comical about the methods...
Interior. One pleasing fact, (a savings of $82,635,930 in operating the Department during the past two years) and several disturbing ones were reported by Secretary Hubert Work. He declared that the timber on public lands was being dissipated, and recommended that no Government timber be sold for ten...
At Rome two humble composite minions took up the task of pleasing Dictator Mussolini once more. They were La Camera dei Deputati and Il Senato. Together they formed perhaps the most enthusiastically abject Parliament ever assembled upon the Seven Hills.
Roused perhaps by "Oxford bags", a British lady whose native tact causes her to remain anonymous has recently undertaken the brobdingnagian task of reforming man's dress. She seems to have begun with the idea of how uncomfortable the poor dears must be in stiff collars, boiled shirts, dragging trousers...
¶ Two decisions were announced from the White House: 1) That the special Agricultural Commission, appointed by the President a year ago to determine what agriculture needs from the Government and whose report was largely ignored by Congress, on its own recommendation would not be reconvened; 2) That no disciplinary...