Word: nice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quiescent editorial policy. The Plain Dealer is Democratic but not vigorously so. Its policy has been one of polite self-seeking. But though the Times addressed itself to the conservative, whitecollar, banker-and-his-clients among the Plain Dealer following, it soon turned out to be just a nice little paper with the right idea but no executive ability-and no resources, to fight its opulent rival. It started bravely, dwindled sadly. When it changed hands last week it was doubtless bought in at an exceedingly low figure...
...anything to parody that thing is certainly established. I feel positively aged in the wood at the honor. Sometime I shall parody the Lampoon and then we'll all be happy, won't we, children, to use the words of Minnie Mistletoe who broadcasts the Nightly. Nothing for Nice Tots from...
...turned toward her "I would like your fascinating little twinkling rather nice ankles did I not like you much and much better", he suggested. To which the tall, lithe and lethal Armenian snorted over his Veuve Cliquot, or wasn't it Veuve Cliquot?--one never knows, does one as the birds on the ledges above the tower of St. Anne Who Was Awfully Good To Goodlooking Women have often chirped into the air of Mayfair on a bright and glimmerful day of sunshine and the sheene of nicest stockings on not the nicest ladies...
...comedy heroes, Mr. Puck sings most satisfactorily, maltreats a piano outrageously, even to the extent of landing on the keys in a nose dive while in the throes of a jazz number, and clowns through numerous comedy scenes which owe their hilarity largely to his naive portrayal of the nice young man who "lives at the Y.M.C.A. in Brooklyn." Moreover, he is credited with the direction of the dance numbers, which should in itself be enough honor...
...most memorable musical number is the sentimental "It Must Be Love," sung first over a subway turnstile (not in the rush hour), after the nice young man has paid the nice young lady's fare with his last nickel. Others are Mr. Puck's "I Was Blue," and the vaudeville troupers' patter number, "We Were a Wow in Worcester...