Word: nice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Robert W. Pogue (President of H. & S. Pogue Co., Cincinnati): "We look for a very good spring business. . . . There was a nice increase. ... The people have more money and the tendency is today for people to spend money for quite a few luxuries. We notice this because we deal in many of the higher-class lines of merchandise...
...from--shsh--held a cigarette or the longnette on the delegate from come come, come but the colossal criticism mothered by one majesty of mental vacuity who just loved to criticise. I think she would criticise on her death bed, and I rather hope--but that really is not nice at all, do you think so? Anyway when she said that one delightful bit of verse by a certain delightful bit of femininity was "Quite too unexpressive and not sufficiently motivated". I felt a sympathy for that child of Gerhart Hauptanan's imagination who dwelt in a matriarchy...
...nice word or give a boost to a man in your own profession, you'd better keep your mouth shut and not show off your ignorance in such a blatant...
Tuesday. Paired with C. F. [C. F. Aeschleman, Swiss star], I won another match in the Nice mixed doubles. He is the best kind of partner because he is so modest. I think he is a little afraid of me. Whenever there is any doubt about a ball, he lets me take it, but he is always there when I need him. Critics who saw us play today (we defeated Mile. Neveu and Capt. Christie in two love sets, and then Miss Evelyn Woods and Mr. Caulfield, 6-0, 6-1) said that they thought we would give Suzanne...
...Patou's, there were all the reporters sitting around, staring at the manikins, the frocks and me, like morticians at a flower-show. Dieu! These American reporters, with dandruff on their collars! One of them was decent enough, though, to bring my racquets on to Nice. I was so excited in Patou's that I had forgotten them. A human interest story in that, no doubt...