Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German Autobuilder Karl Benz's tiny plant one day in 1902 came Austria-Hungary's wealthy Consul General Emile Jellinek. He promised to order 30 of Benz's famous racers to enter in the Nice road race "if you'll name them for my daughter Mercedes." Consul Jellinek got his cars (they won the first 30 places in the race) and his daughter Mercedes' name became a world-famous symbol of automotive quality and speed...
Last week, as his students gathered about his house, they made sure he would know how they felt. They showered him with scrolls, letters, a gold watch and a plaque. Then, suddenly, the fun was over. "This is all very nice," said Monkey Wrench, "but all of you ought to be home studying for exams." With that, he led one last cheer and shook hands all around...
...themes. "I hold your hand in mine," be croons gently, adding later, "if only you were here." "Be Prepared!" is his rousing exhortation to the Boy Scouts, "to hold your liquor well." Then he goes on to advise his little friends, "Never solicit for your sister. It isn't nice . . . , unless you get a good percentage of the price...
...Mama di Bonaventura, who had already entertained the Whitneys at a lasagna dinner in their East 17th Street flat, reported back from a chauffeur-driven visit to the 900-acre Whitney estate in Manhasset, Long Island: "We just had a good time talking and looking around. All very nice people." Mamie Eisenhower, during Spring Week festivities at Brother-in-Law Milton Eisenhower's Pennsylvania State College, obligingly crowned Madeline Sharp of Herndon, Va. "Miss Penn State" then added a fillip by giving the winner a vigorous bear...
...conversation around the plant sounds almost as if it had been taken down on a recorder. ("Oh my god last week he went to Dr. Baumer and what do they find but a zist on the gooms. He couldn't hardly eat no Sunday dinner. A nice goose I had, too.") Sid Sorokin gets fed up and quits Sleep Tite. taking his luscious redhead with him, but the exact resolution of the plot isn't really important to Author Bissell or anyone else. It is the natural talk, the sure feeling for the pace of Midwestern life...