Word: nice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best friends dropped in," the Number One Comic told the press later. "B, Horseshoes Rose, R. Cresson Harlow, A. Red Sheridan, and U. Press Flash had loads to say. For instance, 'Glad you got the Bird' and nice things like that...
...catalogued. One who rated triple-A priority was one Ernie Zalejski, ballcarrier extraordinary at Washington High-which was located, of all places, in South Bend, Ind. The story: flowers and boxes of candy flowed in to his mother, with cards from coaches all over the Big Ten; from one nice man, Ernie got an offer of $1,500 and a new home for his folks if he would put his name down for Michigan. But Ernie still wore an Army uniform, and his preference was Notre Dame...
...National Housing Agency of inaccuracy. There had never been a national system of reporting completions before. Wyatt based his figure of 350.000 on samplings taken by the Department of Labor's bureau of statistics in selected areas. Then NHA applied its slide rules and came up with nice, round totals...
...contest which saw the Varsity realize all the nice things the "experts" had been saying they might, in a ridiculously easy triumph over a not-too-potent Tufts eleven, the price paid in casualties was surprisingly high. Captain Cloo O'Donnell, the sparkplug of the game, suffered a broken rib after his dazzling runback of a Jumbo punt early in the first period, and the mightly mite will be out of action for several weeks. The team's doctor should rule on the approximate date of his return today...
...Transgressor), took time out from novel writing for a small transgression in North Devon, England. A constable caught him driving drunkenly through Wollacombe, hauled him into court. Cost: ?25, license suspended for a year. But Author Farson found it all rather pleasant. "They were awfully nice to me," said he. "The constable took me to the police station and he, the police inspector, their two wives and I all had tea together...