Word: nice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nectar kava, "by drinking which the Chief is brought near and like unto his people." When this potent beverage had been mixed, stirred, and the more solid ingredients pounded in a great bowl, the Chief personally strained it through a filter of woven bark, saying: "This make kava very nice. This take out all the grit." The Duke, no weakling, downed a huge swallow of kava. Thereafter, although flushed for a moment, he gave no sign or indication of its taste...
...most characteristic things about the average exhibition of water-colors is the feeling of mild disappointment or luke warm approbation which it engenders in the visitor. And he goes away with the thought that the pictures are rather nice--and promptly forgets them...
...simply know by intuition that the nice old man Mrs. Phipps saw on the subway reading TIME was my brother. He is most distinguished looking, and he sits up very straight when he reads TIME or any other magazine or newspaper, just as Mrs. Phipps described him. Won't she write and say what he was wearing...
...week that could be dressed up to look like "distinguished" TIME readers. Then I suggest "old ladies," too, because they would cost only $12 a week, and you wouldn't have the expense of dressing them up, because most old ladies have some nice clothes put away somewhere and are fairly clean...
...downfall of the old timers is the essential motif. But in the revival the audience showed that it had not forgotten its old favorites. John Drew (Vice Chancellor), now 73, was cheered mightily when he first looked from behind his newspaper in the second act. Mrs. Whiffen, 83, a nice old lady, was greeted with prolonged applause. The world still loves its illusions...