Word: nice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Rumania, estranged father of six-year-old King Mihai, suddenly moved from his retreat near Paris to Nice, French Riviera, and stopped last week at the dazzlingly white and sumptuous Hotel Negresco...
Motoring from Nice to Monte Carlo, Prince Carol conferred there with the one Rumanian who can conceivably set him upon the throne, M. Juliu Maniu, doughty Leader of the Rumanian Peasant Party (Opposition). At peasant mass meetings throughout Rumania, M. Maniu has furiously denounced the Government of Premier Vintila Bratiano and skirted treason by dark hints against the Regency. That the leading opposition statesman should thus journey all the way from Bucharest to Monte Carlo for a conference with Prince Carol gave an aura of importance, at last, to that loose-lipped, irresolute young...
...Mussolini's bravado in the case of Austria is explained by the martial weakness of that country," continued Professor Langer, "while he does not employ it with Savoy and Nice, the real power of the opposition. By this catering to the public taste, and by such means as his bringing out a bust of himself as successor of the old Romans, he shows his understanding of Italian hearts and their love of the spectacular. Thus he makes himself a hero in their eyes. I don't believe that he personally believes very seriously his superficial policy of reconstructing...
Last week newspapers paid a debt to crime. It is one of their greatest news assets but seldom do editors have a chance to say nice things about men who have committed crimes...
...revivalist preacher was fixed with a nice choice of loyalties; he chose to respect the law rather than the sanctity of the confession which he had received and last week Mrs. Alma Petty Gatlin went on trial in the village of Wentworth for having killed her father. The courtroom was filled with reporters from Southern papers (Northern newssheets neglected the story) and with the inhabitants of the countryside who felt a strange unreality in the proceedings, as if they had suddenly stopped being real people and had become instead the actors in a play. The Rev. Thomas F. Pardue told...