Word: nice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gentle Grafters. An attractive damsel, under personal supervision of a wicked old baggage, would exploit the modern business man, remain a nice girl withal. Artfully, she barters little tokens of self-respect for ten dollar bills, dinners, gowns, invitations to the country. As it must, under even the most liberal credit system, there comes a day of reckoning. The poor girl has but one asset. She surrenders her virtuous distinction. A little moth, a little flame, a little singe-it is nothing to bring a lump to the throat. Katharine Alexander makes it more interesting than it deserves...
...meets Leeta, a young war widow of expensive tastes, who was rather up against it--a nice girl, of course, but one such as do live in the greater cities...
...chits who spend week-days learning what color stationery to use, may really learn about life, as 53,000 people live in the Harvard Stadium. And the poor starved idiots come and ape their bettens by talking about the wonder grows when the newspapers get hold of it. A nice, comfortable little crowed of 10,000 become 75,000 in the Sunday morning mammoths...
...this nice lady who writes so charmingly, so naively of the little girl of Vermont? Her name was Lou Henry when she romped among orange blossoms of Monterey, Calif. Later when a lovely coed, she met an earnest young man who was working his way through Stanford University. They were married, and her name became Mrs. Herbert Clark Hoover. She followed her husband to the ends of the earth. In China, in 1900, they lived for six weeks behind a barricade of sugar barrels and sandbags (Boxer Rebellion). Together they translated from medieval Latin the first work ever written...
With the disclosures of the recent primary campaign expenditures in Pennsylvania and Illinois, and the use of the primary by a candidate not in sympathy with the party, there has been brought into the public eye an important and nice question. Should the direct primary be retained as it is; should it be modified; or, finally, should it be abolished altogether...