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Word: nice (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distinct second fiddle. This is all the more remarkable, because there are few enough actresses of her attainments who would take such a part, and none that would do it with such a fine sense of the artistic unity of the whole, and such a nice realization that she was there purely for background. So superbly is she unobtrusive, so definitely part of the picture, that one forgets she is the same Lynn Fontanne who was the charming mistress in "Caprice", the flower girl in "Pygmalion", the artist's wife in "The Doctor's Dilemma", and Raina in "Arms...

Author: By R. L. W., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/13/1929 | See Source »

...impossibility of talking debts with a nation that refuses to recognize the government it wants to talk to, and urge that the United States first grant recognition so that orderly intercourse will be possible. As for the second, the U. S. S. R. has simply suggested in a nice way that before the United States attempts to collect anything for its citizens it should first make reparations for the ravages inflicted on the Soviet Union by American troops near Archangel and by the White expeditions, such as those of Koltchak and Denekin, which were paid for with American money...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 12/11/1929 | See Source »

Sons o' Guns. Jack Donahue is an awkward member of the A. E. F. Lily Damita, cinema favorite, is a bonny barmaid he meets behind the lines. In a village painted by Joseph Urban, peopled with an Albertina Rasch peasant ballet, echoing with nice tunes, they enjoy the most amiable war on record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...Nebraska-Big Six champions though tied by Missouri and Oklahoma-trounced eleven Iowa Statesmen made wild but not dangerous by six beatings in a row. Nebraska 31, Iowa State 12. Georgia's little bulldogs put on the snarl they wore for Yale at the start of the season. Nice passes and a fake end run made them 12, Alabama 0. Kicks were the important thing in weather that made fingers too stiff to catch passes. Stevens's leg was a shade stronger than Joyce's. Syracuse 6. Columbia 0. By beating Muhlenberg 7-0, Western Maryland became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

SUBWAY EXPRESS?Astute villainy, a nice opportunity for crime-solvers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOING | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

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