Word: nice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quietly, craftily, M. Loucheur has formed a syndicate of rich Frenchmen which was announced last week to have acquired 100 acres on the verdant Cap d'Antibes between blatantly expensive Nice and augustly expensive Cannes. On these charmed 100 acres an Eden sacred to Frenchmen of wealth and position will be established and guarded against Anglo-Saxons...
...seem to assure Miss Entwistle of a long career and a merry one, with IT safely in her possession. That she has sex appeal, which cries out even above the saccharine mouthings of Tommy, is evident. It is only to be prayed that her advent to Broadway in a nice sweet, sticky little homey comedy won't sentence her to the sugar bowl for life...
Midnight Lovers (Lewis Stone). No one would guess from the title that the heroine is a practical girl married to a nice but careless ace. The young bridegroom furnishes their apartment with War trophies, one of which explodes at an embarrassing moment while her husband is away, attending to the War. The ruin brings an interior decorator and a Bill, but the latter is not a little boy as the telegram led an eager husband to believe. Parenthood, deferred, synchronizes with more pacific interior decorations. All the explosions are not confined to the screen, for the audience went...
With a remarkable lack of foresight regarding congestion of traffic the anchorites laid down the following ordinance that required more vigilance and a nice ability to measure distances rapidly. "When a Freshman is near a Gate or Door belonging to College or College Yard he shall look around and observe whether any of his Superiors are coming within three rods he shall not enter without a signal to proceed. In passing up or down stairs or through an entry or any other narrow passage if a Freshman meets a superior he shall stop and give way leaving the most convenient...
Whether or not the amazing cinema will ever attain reality is up to Mr. Shaw and Mr. Lasky alone. Shaw is anything but a child when it comes to reckoning dollars. To be paid $75,000 for "Cashel Byron" would he admits be nice; but to get $250,000 would be over picker. A brief cable from Lasky rather spoiled that plan however and realizing that it would be curel to deprive the public of such a treat Mr. Shaw has come down to $100,000 at which sum the matter stands while the Paramount Pictures deliberate...