Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nice to have a school of individualists, hundreds of students who were big men in prep and high schools. But it is sad when a college that is supposed to produce leaders has none of its own. This must be reinodied. Secret societies should be encouraged. Class presidents and team captains should receive the honor that they deserve. Special courses for politicians and party bosses should be formed. Libraries should display books on popularity. Harvard must organize. B. Matthew Olin Caldwell...
When all of the terms had been announced and the picture-taking was over, Avery suggested that "Dave" drop by for lunch some day. Said Avery: "It's been a nice party...
...nature of the married state. Against it was: "Terrible loss of time, if many children forced to gain one's bread." But the advantages were pretty inviting: "Children (if it please God)-constant companion (& friend in old age)-charms of music & female chitchat . . . Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa, with good fire and books . . ." In 1839 he married firm, kindly Emma Wedgwood: "the perfect nurse had married the perfect patient." Among their many common bonds was backgammon. Darwin tabulated the results of all their games, so that towards the end of his life...
Apprised of his untimely death last week after a studious grandson came across the encyclopedia item, grizzled Aviator Dorozynski, a spry 76-year-old who has been living these many years in Nice, recalled that he had suffered a rib-cracking smashup in 1912, but that he had lived on to enjoy a considerable career...
...longer loves his lass just because she is beautiful. He admires her "great agonized . . . rebellious eyes." The glass slipper is now made of "the finest Venetian glass." And the fairy godmother (Estelle Winwood) is a queer old dear who wanders around saying "window sill" because it sounds so nice...