Word: nice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee of the Security Council was discussing the admittance to the United Nations of another Russian satellite. Russia's Alexei N. Krasilnikov, Gromyko's standin, thought it would be nice if Albania (which stands accused before U.N. of helping guerrillas to attack Greece) became a member. The U.S. and Britain thought that Albania should first blow its political nose...
...thing called Virtuous Wives, a silent little man prowled about, peering at everything. Nobody seemed to know who he was, or why. When the picture was finished, the little man approached Hedda and thanked her handsomely for all she had done for the show. "That's very nice," said Hedda, in her rather imperial way, "but who are you?" "I'm Louis Mayer. I'm the producer, and this is my first picture. And," he added respectfully, "I know everything that's gone...
...been one of MGM's brighter satellites. Then she dimmed. She was making a nice living, but chiefly as a loan-out. One day Irving Thalberg (Hedda remembers when L.B. hired him) decided: no more loan-outs. "Irving," she cried, "you don't mean me?" "Yes, Hedda," he replied, "I mean you too." As an actress, she was finished...
...terrible. But the next year she did a little better. Then, in 1938, Howard Denby of the Esquire syndicate came along-primed, the story goes, by the Metromen who wanted to set up a rival to Lolly Parsons. Hedda's first columns were terrible too. Hedda was too nice to people. "Look," Dema told her, "as long as everybody says you're fine, I like you, you're going to starve to death. Wake up. Be yourself." So Hedda honed her talons...
...knows she is, and she glories in it. Hedda once suggested on the air that interested listeners might design and send her some nice new hats. She received 65,000-none quite the equal of her latest, by Artist Chaliapin (see COVER). Louella Parsons never had it like that...