Word: nice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...help us if Harvard ever assembled a nice, honest semi-pro football team like Boston College. The grateful New England scribes would probably nick-name the backfield "the scrambled eggs" in honor of Dick Harlow. The newest angle to be played up for a local consumption is the likening of Coach Frank Leahy of Boston College to the immortal Knute Rockne (Leahy's team accomplished the stupendous feat of beating Tulane, which has yet to win its first game this year). Dave Egan was only groping around in the dark last spring, letting loose an occasional blast at Harvard...
...have always considered America my second home land.* I have always known the American people as a good and decent people, so it grieves me to realize that today America is the most unprogressive nation on earth. ... It is nice for the United States to say that we must settle everything peacefully, but if we wait for America we must perish in the years of waiting. So I say to America: Now is the time for action, and Japan will not hesitate when its hour arrives...
...unsuccessful playwright, he liked to keep a diary, he did not like grand opera. What he thought about Italy's going to war he did not tell her. She tried to get it out of him by observing what a pity it would be if all the nice buildings Mussolini had built "became prematurely ruins. It would be so much nicer to have the excavating done by the archaeologists of 2042." He just said: "The kind of ruins you get after a modern war wouldn't be worth excavating...
President Roosevelt last fortnight signed a bill awarding $592,719 to Inventor Lester Pence Barlow. A nice piece of money. But Mr. Barlow, at home in Baltimore, was still far from happy. He had won his 21-year fight to make the Government pay for an aerial bomb which he invented in 1914, and which the Army used during World War I. But he calculated that taxes would eat up 80% of his reward, lawyers' fees and other expenses would take most of the rest. Said Mr. Barlow: "This case is a perfect explanation of why inventors go nuts...
...Made of our father's earth, blood of his blood, bone of his bone, flesh of his flesh-born like our father here to live and strive, here to win through or be defeated-here, like all the other men who went before us, not too nice or dainty for the uses of this earth-here to live, to suffer and to die-O brothers, like our fathers in their time, we are burning, burning, burning in the night." But Thomas Wolfe might have lived longer to write greater things, if someone had explained to him one simple word...