Word: nice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spring breezes ruffled the sample ballots tacked (illegally) on doorways, fluttered the big tricolor badges of Senator Joe Guffey's busy Democratic heelers (mostly union men on holiday). But for the Republicans it was not a nice April day. Up & down Philadelphia, as all over the State, guttered a stream of G. O. P. grumbles...
Midwick is pronounced Middick. And Middick is nice Pasadena's exclusive country club. Midwick does not think that Hollywood is nice. But last week at a polo match at Midwick between the Actors and the Producers for the benefit of the Motion Picture Relief Fund, Midwick and Hollywood met socially with a slight hiss of conversation. For a week before the game local society and sporting pages had been ballyhooing the event. The Producers team would consist of Walter Wanger, a hard-working non-scorer; Frank Borzage of long low-goal experience; Mike Curtiz, who took...
...Major Vidkun Quisling, leader of Norway's Nazi party and Hitler puppet. Said Brother Arne, who has been 15 years in the U. S.: "For me, I like it here. . . ." In Manhattan, Trapeze Artist Atrtrys Iwanows (of the "Daring Iwanows"), whose job demands a quick eye and nice judgment of distance, was unable to perform in his troupe's act with Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus...
Thomas Edmund Dewey was too young, said the experts: a not-so-nice kid too big for his breeches; cocky, inexperienced both in politics and statesmanship -a ball of fire in New York, maybe, but just a city dude out where...
Said Editor Miner with a straight face: "He [Sullivan] said he had only a few minutes-it was nice he could spend them in our office." Said the Post-Dispatch, preoccupied with weightier matters (see p. 56 : nothing...