Word: nice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nice, where the infrequent clouds have a bright blue-and-silver lining, the city fathers spent 50,000,000 francs ($419,800) to put as amusing a face as possible on France's current history. One giant mask in this year's annual carnival (see cut) represented the 1940 German knockout blow, another Occupation's heavy hand, a third the joys and hopes of Liberation. A fourth was labeled "OŁ va t'on?" (Where do we go from here?). That one symbolized the France which last week teetered ominously between fresh hope and fresh danger...
...cute," Natatashia L. Rurthey, Pine Manor '48, commented eagerly after the speech. "And what a nice background. I mean match-boxes, and Swedish dollar bills, and things...
...breathlessly awaited details of the royal trousseaux. Hats were "off the face," for royalty may not hide from onlookers under a lowering brim. For Princess Elizabeth there were pastel evening gowns, "really romantic, with rustling, or softly flowing full skirts." For 16-year-old Margaret ("She's a nice kid," said one of the designers, "with a naughty glint in her eye"), at least one "slinky, grown-up looking, sophisticated" chiffon. "Her Majesty," wrote one reporter, "is expected to land in a misty blue, bordered with matching ostrich feathers...
...girl. Typical comedy routine: a firemen's tug of war complicated by a banana peel and a sneeze. All this corn has a kind of innocence about it that is almost-but not quite-disarming enough. Jane Frazee, despite her waxworks role and surroundings, is human, likable and nice to look...
...figure of free enterprise and individualism -sexual, of course, as well as economic. Pritchard is a cartoon of the corpsy soul of Anglo-U.S. capitalism, self-deceived and remote from natural life; Mrs. Chicoy is a type of frank, stupid and violent sensuality; Mrs. Pritchard is The Nice Woman, that baneful figure, whose frigidity is the source and symbol of her other deathly qualities; Mildred, her sulky offspring, apparently represents the healthy rebellion of youth in favor of life; and the. party girl, Camille Oaks, stands for commercialized...