Word: nice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turned up in Sacramento with his proudest possession, a canary named Dick, that can whistle America. Osada was allowed to come home when his wife, a white U.S. citizen who had remained behind, fell ill. Reaction to Osada's return varied. Said one neighbor: "It isn't nice to see them loose on the streets. . . ." Said another: "One Japanese free won't be so bad." Said Osada: "I would go to war any time for this country, even...
...Paramount for failure to show up for work on a new picture, promptly announced that he had '"suspended" Paramount because "the boys come first. ... If somebody'll suspend the war, I'll be very happy to start another picture. . . . I'll give the country a nice rest How often can people stand to look at my kisser...
Like many another soldier, Staff Sergeant Robert Raskin did not want to worry the folks back home. So he wrote to his wife in The Bronx that he had a nice safe job: switchboard operator in the Quartermaster Corps...
...large group of soldiers received by the Pope in a recent audience. First in line, he didn't quite know what to do when the Holy Father offered his ring to be kissed. So he shook the Pontiff's outstretched hand and said politely, as nice boys do in Texas, 'Hi yah, Mister Pope...
Call the Celebrities. Hollywood fought glamor with glamor. The Hollywood-for-Dewey Committee had nice legs, a pretty wit and good lungs : Ginger Rogers, Hedda Hopper, Rosalind Russell, Cecil B. de Mille, Anne Baxter, Leo Carrillo and Adolphe Menjou. So did the Hollywood Committee of New Dealers: Rita Hayworth, Olivia de Havilland, Katharine Hepburn, Orson Welles, Harpo Marx, Lana Turner, Walter Huston, Fanny Brice...