Word: nice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pity of it, the awful pity that such a nice docile animal should have to die--poor Cornell, poor bear! But although Harvard has never lost such a treasure, it alas never had one to lose. Small wonder that Cornell won in 1915 for the Crimson team never had a pet of its own to frolic with through the dull afternoons in the Stadium. But could the Big Red Team triumph again without its oh so human mascot to guide...
...Nice, Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen has been playing tennis, always victoriously. Loungers in the sunshine of the Riviera smiled with tolerant skepticism at these glorious triumphs of the leaping Frenchwoman, for they observed that the women she defeated had seldom been heard of before and were rarely heard of again. They, therefore, looked forward with some eagerness to the finals of the annual Nice tourney in which, they saw, Mlle. Lenglen would doubtless be opposed by Miss Elizabeth Ryan, famed California player. What was their chagrin when Miss Ryan defaulted in the second round! Nice buzzed. It was another trick...
...Egyptian Expedition has been careful to point out that the inscription: "Lord-of-the-Two-Crowns, Sneferuw, the Horns Neb Ma'at," which was discovered on the gold mat of the new tomb at Giza does not apply at all to the person buried there. The point is a nice one and well taken. Sneferuw probably was either a term of endearment or a bill of lading. It is altogether too colloquial and common a word to take its place beside the great unpronounceable of Egyptian anthology...
Michel Auclair. This play, sponsored by the Provincetown group, is a pledge of lost hopes, a souvenir of misshapen direction. The author (Charles Vildrac) is a sort of French Barrie, here perverted into a casual Ibsen. He makes a pretty world for himself out of nice books and brotherly love, ruling out the flesh and the devil. His hero is a young man who is both those Siamese twins of psychology, Dr. Coue and Dr. Frank Crane. The idealist returns from a year in Paris to his village and, finding his fiancee the wretched wife of a doltish sergeant, fulfills...
...punch and prosperity in Hollisburg, Hollis County, Ind. He has all the best property, none of the better instincts. Colonel Oliver Perry Morton Hollis and his dark, haughty daughter, Ruth, represent the town's historical background. They have the better instincts, but their property is bred out. A nice, crude, straightforward narrative is contrived by dragging in a hero-tramp with a fraternity pin, two trig scoundrels right out of Horatio Alger, a sleepy attorney who makes small-town small talk, a Chicago magnate who turns out to be a detective. Fists fly, autos are stolen...