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Word: nice (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carrying formula six--"Exotic Movies"--in his pocket. Sticking to the letter of the recipe, he called in a tough guy, Robert Mitchum, and a seductress, Jane Russell, who really want to spend the rest of their lives on a rubber plantation in peace and senility. He added a nice, but clever, international cop, William Bendix, who gets stabbed, and rounded out the cast with a glassy-eyed, crooked, gambling-hall owner surrounded by inscrutable orientals who paddle after him and stab nice but clever international policemen. This crew wades through the plot outlined in formula number six, involving money...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Macao | 5/2/1952 | See Source »

...life, Mrs. Sarah Eaves of Brookline, Mass, had trusted in men to manage her finances. First there was her husband, and after he died, a relative, and finally that nice man named Caswell Sharpe. Sharpe's manners were polite, his suits conservative, his way of describing stocks & bonds understandable. So Mrs. Eaves gave him charge of her $57,776 in cash and securities. Sharpe got a job in the Boston office of the 17-year-old firm of R. H. Johnson & Co. of 64 Wall Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Salesman Named Sharpe | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

Sound Investment. In Long Beach, Calif., Mrs. Agnes Roche, 39, divorcee with eight children, was swamped with answers to her newspaper ad offering to marry "a nice man who wants a lot of income-tax exemptions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 14, 1952 | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

...least nine dog-food manufacturers now put chlorophyll in their products to keep Fido smelling nice. The prize item: insoles doused with chlorophyll to keep feet smelling fresh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Green Gold | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

...audience to say: "That's me. I really am rather funny, aren't I?" Then, as one ridiculous situation follows another, the reaction should be: "I know this couldn't happen, you know it couldn't happen, but wouldn't it be nice if it could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tight Little Ealing | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

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