Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carries dresses for as little as $9.95. For all customers, Stanley Marcus started weekly fashion lectures, and the women who jammed in have accepted his quietly authoritative dicta. "Dallas women don't want to be that overworked creature, the glamour girl. They just want to be themselves-feminine, nice-looking and, above all, individual." This means an air of restrained elegance known as "the Neiman-Marcus look." It is largely because many of the Texas new rich "were willing to be guided because they recognized an authority," says Stanley Marcus seriously, "that they were able to avoid many...
...interview with the President of the U.S. It is the first time since Dwight Eisenhower entered the White House that he has talked to an individual reporter. It happened because I had my golf clubs along this trip. The people at Denver's Cherry Hills Club are very nice to us reporters. The club has given us all guest cards which read: 'At the request of President Eisenhower, Cherry Hills Country Club is pleased to extend the privileges of the club...
...should go to a heterosexual or a homosexual school. Frankly, we don't have enough information yet on that problem." The New York Daily News's Ruth Montgomery, looking demure under a big hat, asked whether his sensational statistics might not be influenced by the reluctance of "nice women" to talk, compared with "our sisters of the street." Kidded Kinsey: "Those are not terms a scientist uses...
...remaining nonunion mechanics to join up. Said Petersen: "I didn't care much one way or another." Orr, who reckoned that he had paced off 40,000 miles in twelve years, had worn out two signs and two dozen pairs of shoes. Said he: "Everybody was always nice to me. Mr. Petersen never said an unkind word to me all the time I was there." In return, Orr had helped out Petersen by walking his Scottish terrier...
When Australia's wool auctions opened last week, world wool producers got a nice lift. Brisk bidding sent quotations as much as 5% higher than the closing prices last June, and about 25% above their early 1952 lows. But Australia's lively market Was not much consolation for U.S. wool growers, who are in what the Agriculture Department calls "a very depressed condition." Annual wool consumption within the U.S. has fallen from the postwar peak of 738 million lbs. in 1946 to 472 million lbs., and price supports on wool have cost U.S. taxpayers $92.2 million...