Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neither would man be frustrated . . . if he were an animal made only for this world. It takes eternity to make a man despair. ¶ Paraphrasing the story of the Pharisee (who was a very nice man), we can imagine him praying in the front of the temple as follows: "I thank Thee, O Lord, that my Freudian adviser has told me that there is no such thing as guilt, that sin is a myth, and that Thou, O Father, art only a projection of my father complex ... I contribute 10 per cent of my income to the Society...
Connoisseur. In St. Louis, as four holdup men were leaving the home of Mr. & Mrs. William J. Roehl with $25,000 worth of loot, one remarked politely: "You certainly have a nice place here...
Asked if he knew Mrs. Mensinger, he said, "She was a nice kid. She threw a bucket of water over me once, but I wasn't really...
...Scouts, whom she heads, to boycott her too. Mrs. Roosevelt immediately asked to call. Miss Fatima at first refused to receive her. When a meeting was finally arranged, however, Mrs. Roosevelt was so bland about it, so pleased, so regally unaware of any intended rudeness, so utterly, ut- terly nice that 1) the Begum's followers were able to say that Miss Fatima was small, 2) Miss Fatima's followers were able to announce that Miss Fatima had a truly magnetic personality, and 3) both camps were left with the uneasy feeling that Mrs. Roosevelt had scored some...
Renny's classmates seemed to like his work, started buying up his cardboards for 25? apiece. But, more important, his teacher liked them too ("nice design . . . balanced lines . . ."), and decided to take some of them to Boston. There Gallery-Owner Margaret Brown saw them and was enthralled-"terrific spatial feeling . . . great sensitivity . . ." She put them on display along with her exhibit of Calder mobiles. "It takes an artist with some feeling," said she, "to do 20 of these and sustain his values." Some of her advance-guard customers agreed. By last week, she had sold six original Drews...