Word: nice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...typical world-cruise crowd-"schoolteachers and retired white-collar workers and chain-store sell-outs ... [their] ideas pure Technicolor." There were also remittance-men, wanderers and drunks: "nice people . . . rich in leisure, meditation and gamy breaths" (see cut, p. 91; the drawings are Longstreet's). There was a fine old fellow whom he calls Proust's Pal (he had known Marcel quite well) who talked old-fashioned purple epigrams about books, homosexuality and English cooking. There were also Pamela Cohn, who thought of joining the Catholic Church but passed it up on a chance to meet Aldous Huxley...
When Hermann Göring, who loves nice things and is a great hand at Plünderpraxis, visited Athens in 1935, Mayor Cotzias showed him the town. One of the sights included the National Archeological Museum. For more than an hour, Göring stayed in the Salon of Mycenaean Antiquities, pop-eyed and well-nigh drooling over the collection of golden swords, daggers, goblets, vases, collars, crematory urns and other priceless objects of pre-Homeric craftsmanship. The next year His Honor visited Berlin and saw Göring, who immediately said: "How's the Mycenaean collection...
...communicated was that the U.S. would fix such conditions, and that in spite of everything the U.S. would get along all right. The U.S. that emerged from that issue of FORTUNE-through the articles, the charts, the statistics, the figures, the quotations from Walt Whitman, the photographs of nice big factories, wheat fields, mountains, orange groves, and reasonably good, independent-looking people voting, plowing, inventing, building, dancing, playing games, going to shows, or just loafing around the depot-was fairly buoyant and hopeful...
...sound track of a dog comedy. She posed for innumerable publicity stills (says she: "damnedest leg art you ever saw"), inadvertently landed a part in the chorus of the Broadway musical Smiles, played innumerable simpering glamor-girl parts for Columbia and RKO, in 1937 was out of work. Nice handling of a part as a dumb stenographer in Trade Winds, after a year's separation from the cinema, brought her to the attention of Producer Ruben...
...closely identified with the character. Says she: "I love Maisie, but I'm damned if I want to be Maisie forever. . . . When people on the street holler at you, 'Hi there, Maisie!', you begin to wonder whether you're Ann Sothern or just that nice bag Maisie...