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Word: nice (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...company with Cinemactors Helen Gahagan and Melvyn Douglas, she saw Okies at home: overalled migrant farmers, their wives and children in poor Sunday best, in squatters' camps by roadsides, private camps on big farms. U.S. Government camps and a Federal cooperative farm. "My, ain't they nice!" said a migrant wife at Visalia, admiring Mrs. Roosevelt's manicure hands (see cut). " A fine lady," said Mrs. W.N. Pace. "She's nice looking, too-just as homey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: First Lady's Week | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...wife isn't quite sure whether she wants to be seen with me in Public Places, and strangers write me that I am only one shade handsomer than that dude Angel the wrestler, but I have a hound dog that sure still thinks that I am kind of nice. So I don't care. And I'm not worried. And I am going to keep right on digging wells and probably getting spanked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 8, 1940 | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

...astonished" that what Mr. Gogarty or Mr. Palmer [TIME, March 25] "thought 'e might require, 'e went and took the same as me," but the story does have a long white beard. Years ago it was told about as follows, happily illustrating Noah Webster's nice discrimination in his choice of words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 8, 1940 | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

...Petitioner Kay, the session marked her first appearance in a courtroom. Her husband, interviewed, said proudly: "She's no prude. She listens to a nice joke. She don't tell them, but she listens to them." With the philosopher's works under his arm, Justice McGeehan left court. In a blistering 17-page decision he held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Saved from BeHrand Russell | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

Without the power of Louisiana's government behind it, American Progress crumpled like a paper bag with a hole in it. Last week it folded, and the nice, new, $200,000 Progress plant that Leche built at Hammond, La. was on the market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Progress | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

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