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Word: nice (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with 20th Century-Fox (for such pictures as Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! and Oh, You Beautiful Doll). In spite of cinema's glamour treatment, she is also an unassuming and likable woman-as one agent put it, "one of the few actresses in town an agent would say nice things about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Nun Next Door | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

Flynn: "Because I think the Irish are proof against Communism and I want to give him a nice soft...

Author: By J.anthony Lukas, | Title: President Conant Meets A Senate Committee | 2/11/1953 | See Source »

...tragic figure she is supposed to be. But if the scripters have not made the most of their theme, Bette Davis makes the most of her role. Her performance as an ex-first lady of the screen is first-rate. She is, by turns, mad and loving, nasty and nice, happy and unhappy. She appears in chic clothes and drab ones, is sad at a gay Hollywood party, watches herself on the screen, is jailed for drunken driving, works as a saleslady in a department store. It is a marathon one-woman show and, all in all, proof that Bette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 9, 1953 | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

...about a rat, a mouse and a frog. Columbia Records' pop artists & repertory chief, Mitch Miller, decided it would be just the thing for Jo Stafford and Frankie Laine. Marais invented a man named Willy and changed the song's animals to people. "It would not be nice to bill Mr. Laine as a rat and Miss Stafford as a mouse," says Marais. Moreover, as Columbia Records could have told him, and perhaps did, the jukebox trade seldom gets excited about animal numbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: South African Country | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...ahead sign like that, the owners of Israel's 30-odd pig farms began to sell their swine. Restaurant customers soon found their drab diet of cod fillets varied by the introduction of pork cutlets at $2.80 a portion, and housewives were able to purchase some nice cuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Problem in Rationing | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

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