Word: nice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...choice. . . . Mr. Stillman is as pleased as I am. . . . We bought her an emerald and diamond ring, after shopping two days. It is a beautiful jewel but not more beautiful than the jewels that Lena possesses-and by that I refer to her wonderful character. . . . She is a nice little girl . . . my little wood-daughter . . . my little daughter of the bush...
...spiritual confinements of either her gentle or her plebeian heritage. She may have fallen between two stools, or made her choice, conscious that she was neither fish nor flesh. And this of course is the most real thing in the book. The balance of influence and choice is so nice that it is impossible to determine whether Juliet's problem was solved by decision or necessity...
...their graves, four onetime Bayard Senators must have chuckled proudly, said: "Nice work, Tom-you have that old Bayard fight in you." The four† dead had once been fighters: 1) James Asheton Bayard, Senator (1805-13), battled for the election of Thomas Jefferson against Aaron Burr. 2) Richard Henry Bayard was first mayor of Wilmington, Del., Senator (1836-45), Chief Justice of Delaware Supreme Court...
...Harvard gave the ball to the schoolboys on Harvard's 25-yard line. A pretty pass, Gary to Avery, brought the pigskin to the Crimson's five-yard line. An off-side penalty set Andover back five yards at this point, but on the next play Avery took another nice pass, this time from Wheeler, and fell across the Harvard yearling's line. The attempt to kick the goal was blocked...
...spokesman of "conceits" has been called with a certain cynical truth "the founder of a school of bad taste," "Donne" say Dryden, "affects the metaphysics not only in his Satires, but in his common verses where Nature only should reign, and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice specializations of philosophy when he should engage their hearts and entertain them with the softnesses of love...