Word: nice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appeared in the paper saying that all Americans and British between 17 and 50 years must report to a certain place at a certain time. ... I found that the French had taken all the American officials at the consulate away. So I went to the Region Civile. A very nice French captain whom I knew, along with a French naval officer, greeted me cordially. When I asked what I was supposed to do, the captain said, "You have read the paper...
...mention of the word "food" reminded me of my erstwhile hunger, so I called down to the cook and told her to fix up a nice hot plate of forget-me-nots and to be sure and have a prettily-arranged vase of salmon and peas sitting in the very middle of the table. Because I felt that Dorothy May Anderson's father was right: forget-me-nots are more important than food. In fact, it's a wonder nobody has ever thought of them before. They would probably make a ravishingly scrumptious salad. Besides, I never did feature salmon...
Nobody knows just what the big shots at MGM were aiming at, but Harvard has got a request. A nice little girl, say twelve years old, slender and vivacious, would go down just right out in Hollywood. Something about a part in the forthcoming "National Velvet...
...Yesterday and the day before we were given hot baths and we were told that the German soldiers would come tonight to visit us. Yesterday we swore to ourselves that we shall die together. Yesterday they sent us to a big house with bright rooms and nice beds. The Germans did not know that our last bath is our purification before death. Today everything was taken away from us and we were each given one nightgown. All of us have poison. When the soldiers come, we shall drink it. Today we are together and all day we are saying...
...Washington. The three migratory workers soon show Washington what bedlam really can be. Inside one hotel suite they virtually solve the capital's housing problem. Inside a few weeks they virtually supersede the War Manpower Commission. Broad, breezy, gagged to the gullet by Playwright Fields, The Doughgirls is nice, unfastidious...