Word: nice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in Miami, Fla., blackmen shook their heads, "reckoned they couldn't find no way to vote no-how." Miami's 40,000 Negroes never fret much about white men's elections, but somehow they had, counted on marking crosses on nice new ballots in the April elections. A committee of three leading citizens of the black belt, suave in manner, impeccable in dress, called on the city commission. The Hannibal of the trio made a dignified advance. He said...
Charles A. Whelan, President of the United Cigar Stores Co. of America: "My daughter Clara, mother of five and wife of my able vice president, John T. Cassidy, is a businesswoman. Her company 'Clio et Claire' does a nice business in cosmetics. Last week I was said to have chuckled when she announced: 'It is ridiculous to say that women must always affect the same makeup. With some frocks, for example, red lips and pale cheeks only clash. Why shouldn't women paint their lips green? Or blue...
...bookkeeper at $20 a week. To him they came. Said Singer: "Clark won't let me be president, and I swear I won't let him." Said Clark: "Our president ought to be a married man. The office requires some dignity. . . . Don't you know some nice girl that you would like to marry?" Mr. Hopper did know such a girl, married...
...Iceman. Twenty-one years ago one Samuel Rubel, immigrant from Riga (Latvia), peddled ice in Brooklyn. Now he is president of Rubel Coal & Ice Co. and worth $25,000,000. But withal he is not a nice man, declared sundry petty ice peddlers, when Mr. Rubel tried to freeze them out of business the past year by giving free ice to their customers. For that, the Kings County grand jury last week indicted him, and 28 people sued him for damages...
...Irish police are called "peelers" and the British police are called "bobbies" in honor of their founder. So greatly do Britishers respect their p_olice that citizens swelled with indignation last week when the Chief Commissioner of London Police charged "bobbies" with being discourteous and inefficient. One nice old lady accosted a "bobby," presented him with half a crown, said: "Now, don't you listen to what anybody says...