Word: nice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Century. In point of fact, it is nothing but a book of gossip, biographically useless. It will make the reader wish that the author's memory had been a little more accurate and that someone had censored the product. It does, however, bring up a nice point of honor: is it compatible with the conduct of gentlemen to publish to the world the indiscretions of and essentially private details about his friends and acquaintances, most of whom are dead, or to reproduce mere club talk about them? The reader must answer. Yet the book is interesting in its numerous...
...such formalities go, then, Wrangel Island belongs to the U. S. But for 40 years it was so neglected and forgotten that when Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Arctic explorer, decided that it would be nice to claim it for Great Britain?that is, for Canada?a while ago, no one said him nay. The question of ownership is still regarded as "controversial...
...France. More than 100,000 were reported to have moved across the frontier to the South of France since Jan. 1. The French, short of labor, were pleased. It was rumored that Benito was silently encouraging the emigration of Italians to the districts of former Italian Savoy and Nice, wrested from Italy during the days of Napoleon III, in order to prepare the way for any plebiscite that might take place in the future...
Indeed, the Italian people have had no more enthusiastic or sympathetic friend than Mr. Johnson. Ambassador Johnson came to Italy after the Fiume incident. Everything American was anathema. Subversion was rife. The Italians thought him a bit gaga, but distinctly simpatico. He seemed such a nice old gentleman, with so venerable a beard. Young attaches of the diplomatic corps thought him a bit pitiful or ridiculous. Yet Mr. Johnson, as he has shown in his delightful reminiscences, was carrying out a policy prearranged with Mr. Wilson, of treating the Italians as children, lovable or naughty. The measure of his success...
...first run of this year's yield of sap is in, and the Pudding gave its annual show last night to a capacity house of graduates, filled to capacity with the first run of sap and nice yellow cornmeal...