Word: nice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...millions of Americans, the pert, sexy, but basically "nice" girl that Betty plays on the screen is young American womanhood at its best. To the eager young man, the ambitious stenographer, the Hollywood-hungry mother resolutely dragging her little daughter off to dancing school, Betty represents an attainable goal, a daydream that might come true. Grable's own life is a proof of the dream...
...Prophet. Those who greeted him included men in loincloths, women with bare breasts, pious Hindus with shaven heads, Moslems boldly wearing red fezzes. One aged grandmother had come six miles from her village to see Nehru. After glimpsing him, she said patronizingly in her vernacular: "He's a nice enough looking fellow." She confided she had expected to see some sort of a king...
After the match, Oliver told the crowd, "It's very nice of you people to come out and see Hogan play. I also enjoyed it . . . If I play with him a few more times, I'll be a good golfer myself...
...never seen anything like it, I said to Alice, we can't sell any more books because we have no more to sell . . . to think how hard it used to be . . . it's nice to be glorious and popular in your old age, and to buy bones for Basket [her dog] and be admired by the young, well bless you kiddies bless...
...story might have serialized nicely in the old American Boy. It is filmed (much of it at West Point) with romantic feeling for place and protocol, and there are appropriate performances by Ladd as the animated ramrod and by Miss Reed, the screen's All American Nice Girl. Most of the military people, however, are such Galahads, and most of the male civilians are such slobs, that ordinary men will probably slink out of the theater with their hats over their faces...