Word: nice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...established at Johns Hopkins University. The check was forwarded to Owen D. Young, Chairman of the School's Trustees, by my brother Rufus, as part of Chicago's $100,000 allotment in the $1,000,000 fund being raised. Mr. Young, besides writing me a nice letter, wrote a more personal one to Rufus, in which he said things about my 'modesty,' 'generosity,' 'loyalty' and 'readiness to praise others...
...after the opera bouffe suicide of my young poet-husband, Sergei Yessenin (TIME, Jan. 11, 1926), I too determined to kill myself-or so my friends said last week when, at midnight, in Grecian robes and a purple mantle, I waded up to my neck in the sea at Nice, France. I myself stated that I did it on a bet with Rex Ingram, film producer, following a studio party. One Captain Patterson, Britisher with a wooden leg, rescued me from the waves...
...startling speed he sent U. S. recognition to President Diaz, a Conservative, an oldtime friend of the U. S. Department of State, who was recently employed by a U. S. mining company for a few dollars per week. Headline readers in the U. S. said: "Isn't it nice that those Nicaraguans are fixed up at last?" But shrewder observers in Washington and all of Central America knew that President Diaz's soup was not without sediment. The chief trouble was and still is that Nicaragua has another "legal" President-Dr. Juan Sacasa, Liberal, the Vice President...
...under the mistaken impression that his power is on the rebound in England. It is not. But the British coal strike has disrupted the business of thousands of Britons who would formerly have been able to afford a winter vacation on the Riviera. They have not come to Cannes, Nice, "Mo te,"* or Mentone. Therefore the arrival of Mr. Lloyd George was an occasion for demonstrating that tourists are excessively welcome...
...Here, m'boy," they said gruffly. Or they pounded his shoulder and said so that others noticed, "Here, old scout, buy the wife an' kiddies something nice from...