Word: nice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both sides picketed, sloganeered, glowered. Then a woman shook her leaflets, shrilled with nice irrelevance at a veteran: "I'm for Wallace." He rumbled back: "I'm an American." She conked him with her handbag; a policeman, moving beefily forward, got it in the face on the rebound. The randan was on: for the next half hour the Roxy's sidewalk was busier than Union Square on an old-time...
...Science cannot escape its social responsibilities," sighed Atomic Physicist Enrico Fermi, "but it was so nice when science was considered unimportant and was not in the spotlight...
Puccini: La Bohème (Bidu Sayao, Richard Tucker, and others with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Giuseppe Antonicelli conducting; Columbia, 26 sides). No mistaking this for the Met; some nice singing, and a great deal that is ordinary, uneven and sometimes shrill. Recording: good...
...Year Brokers Tip Won. It was a bard school. In morning workouts (young Eddie had the man-sized chore of galloping 15 horses every morning), Davison would never tell him simply to "breeze this horse a half mile with a nice snug hold." Instead, he would tell him to work the half in 50 seconds?and he meant neither one second more nor one second less. Eddie learned to have a clock in his head." In New Orleans in 1933?the year Brokers Tip won the Derby?a "bug boy"* named Arcaro began to get into print...
...this is madness! Clark has a nice wife (Anne Baxter) in the States, and, by all that's Hollywood, he must go back to her. So Lana has to be disposed of finally-but not until her fans have seen plenty of Lana at the operating table, Lana at a Roman bath, Lana in the Battle of the Bulge, Lana on her deathbed...