Word: nice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...still in the process of development, and it is very hard to predict its future. Take for example the case of the helicopter. For years they have been endeavoring to perfect a ship which will land perpendicularly, but as yet they have been unsuccessful. While the helicopter makes a nice, little sport machine, I doubt if it will ever be developed as a practical means of eliminating the necessity of a large landing field. Still, things which we thought impossible 20 years ago have now become commonplace, and we really cannot tell what may eventually develop...
Trading in election futures was brisk, last week, on the Royal Exchange. Such trading, Englishmen like to think, is not "betting on the election." Certainly the thing is done in London with a flair and a nice decorum equaled nowhere else on earth. Indeed most U. S. citizens would find themselves flabbergasted if asked to devise the machinery for placing bets on an election which has so many queer features (General Parliamentary Election, TIME...
...Einstein Forest. Newsgatherers cornered Frau Einstein in the elevator of her home but could obtain little "color" for their stories. "Why? If you would only tell us why!" pleaded Frau Einstein. Lacking other Einstein comment, Berlin newspapers republished his one "joke" about relativity, viz.: "When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it's only a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it's two hours...
...large scale "bootlegging" operations. By a special provision "the courts are to discriminate between casual or slight violations and so called regular bootlegging or attempts to commercialize violations of law". This latter provision has no legal effect since it is but a pious exhortation to the judges to be nice to the amateur offender and to be severe on the individual engaged in the liquor business. But that of course is what courts do anyway and it is submitted that there is no remedy if a particularly "dry" judge should visit a youthful first offender with the maximum penalty...
...having a wonderful time doing just what I am; in fact, I always have a good time wherever I go or whatever I'm doing. People are so nice everywhere, yes, even in Boston, and I haven't found them a bit high-hat either...