Word: nice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sweden's King, Gustav, is 65, but he does not know it. Travelling south on his annual pilgrimage he arrived at Nice. Shortly thereafter the name of Mr. G. appeared in the Nice tennis tournament, scheduled to play in the first round of men's doubles with William Hunter against Leighton Crawford and Wallis Myers. He was defeated, 6-2, 6-2. It happens so every year. But Nice admires Mr. G.-who is 65 and does not know...
...Fall of 1919 to the Spring of 1920 he flitted about on the Continent. From January to November, 1922, he sojourned in the fashionable resorts of the grand monde. Since November, 1923, he has again been in Europe and recently took part in the "Battle of Flowers" at Nice...
Count Ludwig Salm von Hoogstraeten: "I announced that I expect to represent Austria in the lawn tennis competition for the Olympic Games this Summer. I left Paris for the Riviera, having entered the Nice and Cannes tournaments, where: said I would be paired with Vincent Richards in the doubles...
...will refresh the brow-beaten American to hear that no less then London music critic has openly and guilelessly praised an American institution. And it is a nice compliment to the University, or more properly to Dr. Davison, that the Harvard Glee Club is the object of this commendation...
...available, he uses his own. He has rented a whole floor for himself, and when his secretary reported difficulty about getting more rooms, he said: "Buy the building!" He is successful at getting things done, and with all his assumption of authority, no one gets mad at him. A nice fellow? a little naive, a little over-eager?but not at all offending?indeed likeable...