Word: nice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cool retreat in which to study is imperative, the harassed undergraduate may take a tip from the Irish ditch digger's wife, who replied, when taxed by her husband for not preparing a more elaborate supper: "What! Me slave over a hot stove and you working in your nice cool sewer...
June brings the roses and the examination proctors, but where do they come from? Are they exchange professors of Careful Scrutiny from the Middle West, or do they really live here? There simply is no available data about them. They may be perfectly nice people, and then again they may be pick-pockets...
Commissioner of Public Welfare (N.Y.) Coler: "It is easy enough to get a society woman to be photographed with a nice clean-looking baby. But to get the same amount of attention for defective, diseased children is quite another matter...
During these balmy Spring afternoons when all nature contrives to make it hard to study, another condition, natural enough to be sure, but unlike the others, subject to human control, adds to the students' difficulties. The nice green grass in the Yard, and its general park-like appearance attract throngs of happy children to gambol and frolic up and down the steps of Widener and all about the buildings, filling the air with their merry shouts and laughter. Nothing is more truly delightful than the spontaneous merriment of children, but innocent and pleasing as it may be, a library where...
...suddenly becomes interested in murder. She thinks most detectives stupid, she loudly affirms that if she were a murderer she could cover her tracks far more successfully than those who wend their devious ways through the pages of detective stories. Presently she finds herself accused of murder. What a nice idea it is, to be sure...