Word: nice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sunset Strip, later moved on to swanky Harold Way. Some of Hollywood's shiniest names became her steady customers. Brenda felt so secure that she even took a quarter-page ad in a film directory published by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; it was a nice refined ad -just a couple of pictures of her, her name and phone number...
...Cripps walked down the stairs, an OEEC man cracked: "There he goes to his nice bed of nails...
...contributing cause of Redbook's lag was the cautious, nice-nelly journalism of veteran Editor Edwin Balmer, who ruled out illustrations of girls in two-piece bathing suits, printed no fiction in which those who flaunted "the code" came to an unregenerate or glorified end. (By contrast, the June Cosmopolitan features an illustration of a boudoir nude, and captions a sympathetic short story about adultery: "You'll Find It Difficult to Con demn Them as Human Beings.") When Redbook lost $400,000 last year, President Marvin Pierce of McCall Corp. (which also publishes McCall's) decided that...
...optimistic about the commercial value of his wingless fowl. "Wings on a chicken," he declares, "are obsolete. The airplane characteristics of the usual chicken are a nuisance." His wingless chickens do not have to be confined by high wire fences, because their ceiling is about two feet. They are nice and quiet too, and the roosters don't fight much. They "dress -out" beautifully, says Baumann, "with white meat where the wings are on other birds. These chickens are the nearest thing to a schmoo of anything alive...
...champion's glove, someone yelled, "Where's Joe?" They found Joe Louis, figurehead director of boxing for boxing's new monopoly, the International Boxing Club.* Joe climbed into the ring to hand La Motta a gold championship belt (with a diamond, two sapphires and two rubies). "Nice going, Jake," said Joe. La Motta shed a few proud tears. When the receipts were counted, I.B.C. discovered it had lost $4,000 on its first major fight promotion...