Word: nice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exploit they claimed more than 9,000 captives. Having lost British Somaliland (68,000 square miles) last August, and now having virtually won. Italian Somaliland (194,000 square miles), the British were, as ever, pleased but not given to overstatement. Comment of British military spokesman in Cairo: "Quite a nice exchange; we now have a Somaliland that is slightly better than...
Died. Harry Whinna Nice, 63, fat, affable, one-eyed Baltimore criminal lawyer who was Maryland's Governor from 1935 to 1939; after a heart attack; in Richmond...
...containing the most binding elements of Communism and Hitlerism"; denounced her "innocent, wholehearted, humane enthusiasm" as "only a disguise." To Mrs. Roosevelt's defense leaped the smart-chart New Yorker, which has social sensibilities if not a social sense. After a mixed tribute to the Pegler prose ("a nice combination of ginmill epithet and impeccable syntax"), The New Yorker deplored "discussing the First Lady as if she were a crooked wrestling promoter...
...born in Missouri's northwest corner, the rolling prairies of the Platte River country. They met as legal eaglets at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Mo. Both, on graduation, went to St. Louis to practice. Both became members of the same Grace Methodist Episcopal Church in a "nice" residential district; both joined the same Scottish Rite Masonic lodge; both became trustees of the church and members of the Salvation Army's board. Mrs. Donnell and Mrs. McDaniel for 23 years have been members of the same Mother-craft club, and their children belong to the same church...
...work day. As NBC's musical counsel honoris causa, he has worked at a steady job for 13 years: NBC's Music Appreciation Hour. Every Friday some 7,000,000 youngsters, most of them in public-school classes, await with pencils and notebooks the mellow baritone of nice old Dr. Damrosch: "Good afternoon, my dear children...