Word: nice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comprehensive time-table, more explicit than any railroad bulletin, has been prepared, which all revellers from Radcliffe must rigidly observe. A nice distinction and sense of proportion determines the hours set by this table. All students must check in at home at midnight when returning from a dance. An 11.45 o'clock deadline has been set for the theatre-goers, while those who seek the Boston Arena on frosty winter nights must punch the clock at 11 o'clock sharp. The skating rink in Cambridge is honored by a 10.30 o'clock margin, but all promenaders along the Charles River...
Reds. French Communists were content during the Paris excitement to demonstrate passively at Clichy, Soviet-infested suburb of Paris. But one midnight, as a trainload of legionaries rumbled along between Cannes and Nice, a considerable section of railroad track suddenly leaped and twisted upwards in the dark, wrenched out of place and heaped with rocky debris by a powerful explosive. The legionaries had escaped disaster by five minutes, owing to their
...uncalled for, because I've always loved my teachers. Back in the sixth grade in Shemokin Pa., I put a large red apple on teacher's desk daily, and Freshman year I gave my German A instructor a box of ripe red raspberries one day and a basket of nice prickly pears the next...
Died. Isadora Duncan, 47, famed danseuse; in Nice. One end of her red scarf caught in the front wheel of her motor; she was dragged from her seat and instantly killed. On her bier, her chauffeur laid a huge bouquet of flowers representing a month's earnings...
...Rome, the Mayor visited St. Peter's Basilica, saddened by the newly reported disaster to Rome-bound aviators, awed and impressed by the" grandeur of this edifice. Said he: "They must have passed the hat around several times to build all this." Of the catacombs, the Mayor remarked: ". . . Nice fresh tombs, 2,000 years old. . . . Wish we could find a few cata- combs in New York's subsoil. It would save us a lot of money when we build subways...