Word: nice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Britishers must go to Ascot every year. From Windsor with his good wife and the Prince of Wales he drove through the rain in a landau drawn by six perfectly matched greys mounted by postillions in scarlet coats frogged with gold. He saw Lord Derby's Toboggan, a nice bay filly, win the $25,000 Coronation Stakes while his own horse, Scuttle, came in third; he saw Brown Jack win the Royal Ascot Stakes by three lengths from Bonny Boy II, and he saw Maid of Perth win the Golden Vase that has his name...
...Senator Norris insists, the Supreme Court may have a nice stickler before it, though there is a precedent in the U. S. Court of Claims which would uphold the Muscle Shoals "pocket veto...
Other old men have performed stunts to sell postcards. But here and there an old man or a young is destined to seem to everyone especially nice. By the time he reached Paris, last week, "Iron Gustav" Hartmann seemed as nice as "Trader Horn," with just a dash of Lindbergh...
...fiacres instead of taxis, assembled 39 of their favorite and seediest cab drivers at the Porte de Pantin, to greet jovial Red Beard Hartmann when he drove in last week. For the rest, Tout Paris is ever ready to join in good-humored shouts at a spectacle so nice as a parade of 40 old men and 40 old nags up the Champs Elysees and on to the Eiffel Tower...
...Movies. Philip Dunning, who was supposed to have had an important part in the writing of the raucous and exciting Broadway, is billed also as the co-author of this thing. The discrepancy between his two brain children is not nice to contemplate. The second is about a pale and gawky elf who wins a scenario-writing prize, comes to Hollywood, is besieged by unscrupulous women who want him to get them in the movies and is finally permitted to claim the hand of his own true sweetheart. Those in whom a severe spanking might cause concussion of the brain...