Word: nice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nice little job," sings Yale to Harvard, "for your Dramatic-shop Baker." Boston Globe...
...editorials are quite all right, but somehow one feels that a couple of other might have done just as well. And it was a disappointment to find under the very nice "Ibis Inklings" heading, the old,--oh, very old one--about the human race being the funniest. That is not even up to the one about the Frenchman of note who, upon being asked what animal he thought was nearest to a human being, replied "L'Angiais." And the funnies attempted to be made out of newspaper headlines all seem to be forced; not that such headlines are not perfectly...
...young child, in a spirit of generosity or mischief, gives the garden rake to the neighbors, it is a simple enough matter for the father to drop in on them after supper and explain that the lad knew not what he did. If they are nice neighbors, they will surrender the implement without argument and the owner can whisk the leaves off the lawn next morning as planned. Not so simple is the Government's task of recovering its celebrated Oil Reserves, No. 1 and No. 3*, leased respectively by onetime Secretary of the Interior Fall, in a spirit...
...Story. On the top floor of the battered old skeleton of a house on Pontippy Square, Polchester, dwelt three old ladies. Two of them were nice old ladies; but Mrs. Payne was big and hard, with something uncanny about her and a gypsy strain in her blood. All three were very poor...
...Some day," he said, "if she has the proper trainers, she should have a nice, small voice...