Word: nice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American womanhood got a kind word from Visitor Maria Romano de Gasperi, 23-year-old daughter of Italy's visiting Premier. She had thought the girls who came to Italy-"so nice, so full of life"-were exceptions; now she found that "these qualities are peculiar to all American women." She also admired their clothes. "But I think," she added, "that American women look better when they wear sport clothes than when they try to look sophisticated...
...Institute spoke in English, although some of them (Uruguay's Larreta, Italy's De Gasperi and Turkey's Yalman) did so with difficulty. Padilla explained his linguistic temerity in a characteristic introduction: "Many years ago I arrived at Paris, and I met and had a very nice friendship with a girl from Hungary. She did not at that time speak a word of Spanish or French, and I did not speak a word of Hungarian or French. We improvised and we found very soon that we were very happy: nobody understood us and we could not make...
Last fortnight, in the luxurious apartment in Nice which she shares with her son Jacques, a Communist editor, Marga and three friends were rudely interrupted at lunch by dead Raymond's ghost. Three gendarmes arrested Marga on suspicion of murder...
...says I'm a fool-and she may be right. She often is. I don't even know what is wrong myself, only that something keeps gnawing away inside me, and life isn't as good as it looks. . . . My job at the factory is going nicely. We've got a nice little house and the kids are doing well. My wife is the best friend a man ever had. But all the time I've got the feeling that there is something missing. Like meat without salt. . . . Books don't seem to help...
Claudette Colbert is a dauntless, stylish, long-suffering widow who has turned her back on love (Walter Pidgeon) in order to raise two stepchildren and pay off her late husband's debts. The stepson (Robert Sterling), just home from the Navy, is a nice, levelheaded boy. But the stepdaughter (June Allyson) is something straight out of Freud. Since no one has ever told her that the adored father who died when she was five was a weakling, a dipsomaniac and a thief, June sits all day at the piano, strumming Debussy and mooning over daddy's memory. Meanwhile...