Word: nice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...once we had shaken hands I felt all right. The President was very nice...
...HAUNTED HOUSE?Hilaire Belloc, illustrations by G. K. Chesterton ?Harpers ($2.50). Rackham, also known as Rackham Catchings, was a nice house for a murder. Part of it was built in the time of Queen Elizabeth. Various stucco wings added to its ugliness through the ages. Among other things, it contained "many a bad watercolour by ladies of the place, living and dead; a few portraits in the drawing-room, one of which, almost black, was reputed to be a Gainsborough." Rackham had come into the possession of Mrs. Hilda Maple, a widow with a business head. She filled...
Once the snow has arrived it is duly trampled on and none is saved for purpose of "miraculous exhibits." And afterwards, during the long winter evenings in New Hampshire, the circle huddles closer to the fire. "It was a nice carnival" says someone. "Oh, yes and did you notice all the snow...
...would be presumably damned were it not for one among them who was pure. She shows the path to sobriety, sweetness, light. A little child shall lead them. She had to, because all the mothers and fathers went out drinking and necking even more earnestly. There lies the moral. Nice old father and mother were out getting drunk, playing naughty and picking up a nasty collection of nervous breakdowns. This is a play that no drinking mother should miss...
INTERFERENCE?A very nice English family is suspected of a very effective murder. (TIME...