Word: nice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...National League of Classroom Teachers and a vice president of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women,* was put in nomination for the N. E. A. presidency. None was named to oppose her. After the unanimous vote was cast, Miss Adair said: "It surely is mighty nice of you all." All other N. E. A. officers were reelected, Retiring-President Blair becoming a vice president...
Naughty but Nice (Colleen Moore). Naughty, because she fibs to the headmistress of her "ritzy" finishing school and gets herself locked up at a houseparty with the wrong man; nice, because she tailors her hair, retains her respectability. Also dumb...
...When we Get in With Nice People" is the vegetative tragedy of a couple who progressed from Greenwich Village to Park Avenue without discovering that "nice" is the emptiest word in the English language...
...have something to say to the representatives of the United States. . . . Allow me to say a few words as a Swede. In the name of my countrymen I thank you and all the citizens of the wonderful country on the other side of the water most heartily for the nice, kind reception you gave our Crown Prince and Crown Princess last year [TIME, June 7, 1926]. Sweden will never forget that...
...About two years ago I got tired of them and so I got a can of good lead paint . . . and put a nice coat of paint all over the walls...