Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last week, by the time the Caronia left Japan for Honolulu and home, she had left behind some $300,000 in good convertible currency. "They were so nice, so charming," cooed a Japanese official over the departed tourists, "and so very, very rich...
...does not mind: all he wants is his free ticket on the merry-go-round. Disgusted, Willie weds the high-diver, but Joe soon has her right back where he wants her. Before it all ends, Willie is left in the arms of a LIFE photographer (George Nader)-a nice, steady young fellow of the vine-covered-cottage type, according to the script...
...folks in A Pride of Lions who engage the reader's sympathy. It is one of the merits of Novelist Brooks that he can disengage the social absurdities and crotchetiness of the passing generation from the admirable character that lies underneath. In fact, young Tom Osborne, nice, sensible fellow that he is, looks and sounds downright uninteresting when he is set beside his retired-lawyer father and his crusty contemporaries back home...
...Very nice music," nodded Donor Benjamin. He ordered it recorded for his home collection and set up another tranquillity award for next year...
...days later, the old man, the young girl and the dowager meet in Nice to split the swag and plan their next job: selling the hotel they are staying in. From here out. the progress of the three gentle grafters from riches to rags is an amusing little elegy on the good old days before the big villains put all the nice little crooks out of business. Actor Squire, a master of the mumble-and-ndget school of British comedy, makes a roguish old rogue, and James Hayter, as the man who buys the hotel, does a preposterously funny caricature...