Word: nice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Zwiezynski," he sneezed. ("Gudaitis"--Ed.) Stovall the ways to Maack myself look foolish. It a Pierce to me that there will be plenty of Blood and Gauer spread around this afternoon. But Eshmont no questions about it; I hope my Mallett me go. She's nice, Anderson is a Economos major...
...Profit. Only nice thing about the whole situation is that the trolley and busmen are making money-and making it fast. Despite higher taxes and wages, Philadelphia Transportation earned $1,133,000 in the year ended June 30 v. $713,000 last year; New York City Omnibus cleared $738,000 in the first six months against $630,000 a year ago. And the Midwest's Twin City Rapid Transit Co. is making money so fast (six months' profit: $373,000 v. $126,000) that its preferred stock last week soared 24 points to 73, more than three times...
...plane is making a landing. If they are in an impish mood, the gremlins either jerk away the runways so that the pilot cannot tell where to land, or they tip the nose of the plane down so that a propeller prangs. At other times they can be as nice as can be, even get invited by air-gunners into their turrets for warmth and companionship...
General Hirschauer had a nice problem on his hands. The Luftwaffe had already let Germans know that as long as the Russians held out it would need the bulk of its strength on the eastern front. That put a bigger load than ever on the anti-aircraftsmen.. Yet the cities the Russians now bombed could not have adequate defenses, for the defenses were needed elsewhere. Chiefly they were needed in the tight Ruhr rectangle (15 miles wide and 35 miles long), where 51% of German industry is still concentrated...
...daughter Barbara," explains Author Bemelmans airily, in this latest funny travelogue. Barbara, aged three-and-a-half, is the intimate of "the captains of at least half a dozen liners," and "pen pal of some future desperado." Barbara has met nice people everywhere, "and left them nicely alone." Her heart belongs to Daddy and to a host of "socially maladjusted" bums and crooks she has picked up in Cuba, Paris, Gramercy Park, Chile, Peru, Ecuador...