Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Proportionately, the lesser the character, the meaner the line, as when the King of the Beggars says to Gringoire, "Good intentions never put an onion in your soup." And showing the effects of spotty scripting, the beggars' hangman, deprived of Gringoire's neck, laments, "It was such a nice neck." Comic relief of this sort seems out of place...
...real he-man." Jack allowed that Estelle ("a wonderful girl") would become his fourth wife. Then Estelle let Jack in on a little surprise: she planned to invite Douglas to visit them during their honeymoon in Palm Beach at Christmastime. It was "only a friendly gesture [to] a nice fellow." In the old-fashioned belief that honeymoons are for two, Dempsey, clutching some candles which had been sent for the wedding, walked out of Estelle's life. Philosophically, Estelle decided: "He is he, and I am I." Next morning she took a plane to Florida. She did not tell...
...last of the Irish Tenor barmen. Since many of the final clubs do not permit women guests, the Hasty Pudding also gives dances throughout the football season. "The Hasty Pudding," says one member, "has no particular social barrier--the only consideration is more or less if you're a nice...
...Moon Is Blue. Disapproved by the Legion of Decency and the U.S. Navy, but a nice little comedy all the same (TIME, July...
...would be awful nice to have Cleary around," Captain Wood said yesterday, "but his loss won't break our team. We're going to win tomorrow. We're got nine lettermen back ourselves, and there is no reason why we should stop at five straight against Dartmouth...