Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rather steep comedown-in the end he jumps off a cliff. John, a much wiser young squire, gets home to England, where all ends with a nice, bucolic chirrup: "The kingcups and the wild daffodils were out in the water meadows; from the dovecot came the sudden passion and stir of wings." And Elfrida, the girl John left behind him, "had grown tall; under the sun she showed satin-fair...
...called the General Assembly's new Secretary General, Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden, "a successful choice." Of Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. '24, head of the U. S. delegation, Menon would only say he had a nice personality and was "a Harvard man." But he would not explain this last remark...
...sipped. Everything was as sweet as California port until one of the guests, American-turned-Briton Nancy Astor, sidled up to Joe McCarthy. Said razor-tongued Lady Astor, eying Joe's drink: "I hope it's poison." Said Joe later: "I've been informed that some nice, kindly old lady did make that remark...
...streets, she was befriended by a streetwalker, and by a drug addict who introduced Kiki (aged 16) to cocaine. A pimp seduced her, beat her arid threw her out because she "wasn't good for anything." One night a girl friend told her that there were "nice suet cakes and tea to drink" at the house of a Russian living in the Cite Falguiére. The girls stood shivering on the doorstep, afraid to knock. A neighboring painter, as poor and as cold as themselves, but a man of talent, took them...
Lest the colonel be disillusioned, the British press tried to find nice things to say about the ancient foe. Lord Beaver-brook's Evening Standard even detected a trace of the secret Anglophile in the colonel. "All his life," noted the paper's "Londoner's Diary," "he has had his clothes built in Savile Row, as also did his father. When he has been unable to come to London, a Chicago tailor has taken the colonel's measurements and sent them to London." The Standard also pointed out that by buying with dollars in Britain...