Word: nice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bars and nightclubs are going strong. One is named the Radar, another the Atomic Cafe. There is one Jeep Cabaret already and another is opening soon. One pretty nice joint is called the Eventail Nightclub...
...days of the late Sidney Smith had a modest resemblance to middle-class U.S. life, has little now. Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie, never any too real or too funny, has sunk so deep into moldy homiletics that it is now trying to make Tory a nice word by proving that only rabble revolted in 1776. Fantasy, outside of Crockett Johnson's Barnaby and Al Capp's Li'l Abner, is so fouled up in gamma rays, cloaks of invisibility, space ships, and brutal omnipotence, that it has little time for fantasy's ancient...
...French. In Le Havre, where some Frenchmen began carrying truncheons at night to protect their wives and sisters from G.I. insults, a young French girl complained: "I do not know why all Americans think that all French girls will make love to anybody. I think Americans can be nice if they don't drink. But when they are drunk they are beasts. For me they have worn out their liberation. I wish they would go home...
...point where even Hollywood thought it worth satirizing (see cut). Moreover, returning G.I.s are buying heavily scented colognes without a snigger. They have been well educated. Said one salesgirl: "From all the stuff we've mailed to servicemen overseas, I'll bet that jungle smelled awful nice...
...supposedly, was out of ladies' evening slippers. Jenny Dolly (now dead), more spectacular than Rosie, once broke the Casino at Cannes, won 12,000,000 francs in two days of baccarat at Le Touquet and skinned a notorious character named Amletto Battisti of 5,000,000 francs at Nice. One morning, strolling down the Esplanade at Cannes on the arm of a gallant London department store tycoon, she spotted a 52-carat, $250,000 diamond ring in a jeweler's window and wheedled him into buying it on the spot. All this & more she eventually spent or hocked...