Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Well, that's very nice, Mr. De Sapio. The question was, are you for Governor Harriman for the Democratic nomination...
...Ellises disregarded the warning, adjusted their lives to their new responsibilities ("I can't tell you how nice it is," Mrs. Ellis told a friend, "not to be able to go out except on Saturday nights like other parents"), gave the child solicitous attention in their comfortable suburban home. When the courts ruled against their adoption petition in 1953 and ordered Hildy returned to her mother, Hildy knew no other parents than the Ellises...
...about a kind young man with a mean old father who demanded that the mortgage be foreclosed on a defenseless old widow and a deserted orphan on Christmas Eve. Much of the writing was pretty good, particularly when the father was teaching his son the first principles of meanness: "Nice guys don't win ball games . . . The road to failure is paved with kind hearts . . . The good die young . . . You've got to be mean, merciless and mercenary to get ahead in the world." Unfortunately, the director and the actors botched the farce by trying to play...
Escoffier's life had a simple line. At 13, he left school for the kitchen of his uncle's restaurant in Nice. He learned the hard way, but fast-uninterrupted even by the Franco-Prussian War, when, as an army chef, he learned how to cook a horse (scald the meat and cool before cooking, to kill the bitter taste). After the war he perfected his style and fatefully met Hotelman Cesar Ritz. At Ritz-managed hotels (Monte Carlo's Grand, London's Savoy and Carlton, Paris' Ritz), Escoffier cooked his way to fame...
...Best of Fred Astaire (Epic LP). Dancer Astaire has no voice to sing of, but he sings with nearly as much style as he dances. Included here are re-releases of some fine Gershwin tunes, e.g., A Foggy Day, Nice Work if You Can Get It, and some rosy-cheeked orchestral shenanigans by the Ray Noble and Johnny Green bands of the late...