Word: nice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...12th, Teddy Powell will be playing at Kirkland House, and if you didn't hear him when he was at the Famous Door, Kirkland gives you the opportunity to dance to one of our better up-and-coming orchestras. Powell, too, has a nice jump style, and features a number of boogie-orchestrations, some of which (Teddy's Boogie-Woogie and Teddy Bear Boogie) you can hear on Decca records. He's got a gang of good soloists, and gives them ample opportunity...
...Brady, 24, who co-authored Cook Book with Faculty Member Walter F. Kerr. Said Joe of Leo Brady: "He's as good as I am. He's better than I am. He's even taller than I am." In his tribute, Joe was not merely being nice to a clever amateur. Young Leo Brady, already a full-fledged dramatic professional, wrote the play version of Richard Connell's gangster story Brother Orchid, which was sold to Warner Bros., filmed in 1940 with Edward G. Robinson...
...colonel addressed us on Friday evening the 13th and informed us that we'd be leaving at 6 a.m. the following day for the purpose of capturing El Wak. Big cheers, beer, sentiment, fellows pulling others to the side and rather shamefacedly asking for nice letters to be written to their families in case anything happened, water checked, rations checked, grenades charged, etc. . . . We were a pretty huge force. . . . Troops from the Gold Coast and East Africans accompanied...
Wishing Senators a Happy Easter and an ever-normal granary, Hybrid-Seed Grower Henry Wallace presented each of them with a nice box of sweet-corn seed-for planting April...
...first chapter in Mr. Wells's new fable is 40 pages long; the last is five; and the whole is one quick petering-out. It is all rather as if, with boundless elan, a man started telling a dirty story to a nice old lady, realized his error in midstream, and tried in the same breath to finish it and to back out of it, winding up in a hopeless cachinnation of "uhs," "I-mean-to-says," and tongue-swallowings...