Word: nice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicken Feed. Plays produced by John Golden must get very tired of being always called nice and clean. But there seem no other adjectives for Chicken Feed-it is just one of those nice, clean plays about married life in a small town that inevitably bring up the mention of The First Year. Only this time it's the dozenth year instead of the first. And the crux comes when the wives concerned, growing weary of always having to ask their husbands for another dollar for the milkman, demand a 50-50 split of the family income, if they...
Chains. Three mountainous acts labor and bring forth the mouselike aphorism: "I wonder if, after all, morality isn't just a matter of viewpoint? "A nice mother's heart is lacerated and a slavish father's pocketbook insultingly proffered when their son's wild oat comes to light. The heroine, backed by an open-space brother of the slavish father, carries the day for righteousness with a fine mixture of scorn, patience, idealism. Few of the multitudinous lines are unfamiliar, yet Author Jules Goodman insists on driving the lot home with dogged repetition. Helen Gahagan is courageous under her heavy...
...terrible beating from that gentleman's lackeys- nursed Sylvia through the plague, then raging-escaped from a dead-cart-and generally conducted himself in such proper d'Artagnan fashion that it seemed only fair for Mr. Sabatini to reward him with Sylvia's hand and a nice little governorship somewhere in the Indies...
Lady Eleanor Smith, 19-year-old daughter of Lord Birkenhead, now in the U. S.: " Said I, describing the Prince of Wales: ' He works so hard he doesn't have a lot of time for pleasure and, really, he is nice. I mean, not a bit conceited over the the idea that lots of girls like...
...speed records in covering distances of 2,500, 3,000, 3,500 and 4,000 kilometers. But most important of all, they achieved a complete demonstration of the possibility of refuelling from the air. Twice they received gasoline from a sister ship above them and they even got a nice, hot breakfast on a third aerial contact. The extension of this system of refuelling opens new vistas in aviation. Commercial and mail planes would be able to fly across the continent without having to carry huge supplies...