Word: pleasingness
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The Nth Commandment. A conventionally sentimental tear-teaser, pleasing only because of Colleen Moore, who manages to be charming as the poor young working-girl with the invalid husband, and George Cooper, whose comedy has genuine humor and finesse.
The interrelation of studies is emphasized by a writer in a recent review, who shows that history, for instance, is a combination of biology, meteorology, geography, and economics. Military successes and failures in Europe have depended not so much on men as upon "the physical geography of Belgium and Eastern...
"In a magazine cover," the speaker continued, "circulation must be considered; the cover must be such that it may be seen at a distance. Consequently, a designer must strive to combine artistic quality, richness, softness, and pleasing tone with carrying power. There is a great difference," Mr. Campbell concluded, "between...
"This system of promoting sales," he continued, "reaches the more influential classes in the community, and so its effectiveness is increased by the imitation of the leadership of these people. Another factor which has contributed to the increase in this method of advertising is the use of more pleasing forms...
Thursday evening, then, the East and West of music, so to speak, met. The contrapuntal perfections of Palestrina and the polyharmony of Boulanger bowed, smiled, and behaved in a highly amicable way. The "Vielle Priere Bouddhique", to which Wilbye's rather meaningless "Amarillis" afforded good contrast, is modern music at...