Word: nice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They might even be sentenced to be hanged, which would be too bad. But they are much more likely to go to jail, that Eskimo heaven where it is always nice and warm and there is nothing to do but eat and sleep...
...compare the Navy's attitude toward colored and that of Harvard with her Bill Lewis, Ned Gourdin, Mathews and others. Don't let the nice speeches fool you. Look at the records...
...humorist, a lecturer, an editor, a critic, a librettist, a politician-and successful as all six. Lillian Russell played in his chipper Gilbertian revision of The School for Scandal. As a lecturer he earned $500 a week for discreet blends of laughter and sentiment on such subjects as Salubrities (nice celebrities) I Have Met. As an editor he diapered the old Life's first years, brightened up "The Editor's Drawer" of Harper's Monthly, ran Harper's Weekly until Colonel George Harvey crowded him out. He set a whole generation's style of tame...
When two slick fellows wrote him offering to trace his ancestry for $2, Secretary Harold L. Ickes sent the $2. Back came not only genealogical tables but a nice coat of arms. Having established after a four-way check that there is no Ickes coat of arms, Honest Angry Harold turned the tables over to the Department of Justice, had the men arrested for using the mails to defraud...
...River Rats are a shabby proletarian confraternity, loosely organized into canoe clubs, whose lives and small earnings are wholly focussed on the floats, canoes, club dances, coving (river talk for necking et seq.} and races. To Ralph they represent that lowbrow, duty-destroying athletic aristocracy among whom most "nice" boys long to qualify. He wants intensely to be accepted as a rat. Harriet, who knows on which side of the tracks her future lies, wants him not to. Then Dutchy appears. A nice, hard blonde, the daughter of a fireman who drowns in the Charles, Dutchy is the essence...