Word: nice
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
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...