Word: nice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have a nice, quiet lane in Central Park to be set apart for the figures of religious founders from Buddha to the Bab, and let the devotees of these masters meet in friendly disputation with the soon- to-be ex-Mayor Hylan as umpire or Comptroller Craig as alternate...
This girl is played by Helen Hayes. She is probably our most consistent flapper. And yet somehow you wonder how she can go on like that night after night talking synthetic slang and just being her very nice self. Katharine Cornell should trade her one of her tragedies...
There are many famed Jews -Colonel Friedsam (Altman's, the nice store), H. H.Lehman (finance), Adoph Zukor (cinema). Some are peers of the Straus brothers, but none o'ertops them in the esteem of Manhattan or of the Republic. Monday, Friedsam; Tuesday, Lehman; Wednesday, Straus; Thursday, Zukor-each was. a million-dollar day (except Tuesday, $957,000) and jointly they produced from the pockets of New York City Jews the gallant total of $4,001,335 for Jewish philanthropies...
...sport distorts the whole social structure of the average American college. Even in the most professedly democratic institutions caste, grows up around football prowess. . . . One of the literary clubs of Yale languished until it was revived by the happy accident that a football Captain happened to have a nice taste-in verse. And that season poetry became popular and quite the thing to do. But the risk is too great. Another century may elapse before there comes again to college one who can turn an end and a couplet...
Public opinion in France must be educated in financial matters. Here is a nice job for the newspapers...