Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sutton, awaiting trial for bank robbery in a Long Island jail, heard about the killing on his cell radio. His initial reaction was highly egocentric: "I could have fallen off the bed. This sinks me." Then he scrambled back to his role as a bandit with nice manners. His lawyer announced that Willie was writing to Schuster's family to express "his sincere regrets at this senseless, disgraceful murder." Willie has been offered $250,000 for his memoirs and will turn this money over, his lawyer said, to the "Willie Sutton Helping Hand Fund," to assist ex-convicts...
After World War I, Van Dongen said goodbye to the old life. Instead of the acrobats and gypsy girls and black-stockinged nudes that had preoccupied him, he turned more & more to painting celebrities. The Aga Khan sat for him ("best model I ever had . . . nice and patient"); so did the vivacious Comtesse Anne-Elisabeth de Noailles, who "gesticulated so much that one of her breasts slipped out of her blouse, so I painted her that way." In time the great and near-great began calling him Kiki, and whenever he gave a party, they flocked to it dressed...
Under George (Born Yesterday) Cukor's direction, Judy Holliday is still playing dumb Billie Dawn, while Newcomer Aldo Ray is just a nice husky guy with an even huskier voice. The plot reconciles them at the end on the questionable grounds that they have a way of life worth saving, but by that time the wordy script has divorced itself from its theme...
Doreen was brooding about the economic situation of the U.S. "Take even this G-string," she cried. 'Five years ago, I could get a real nice one like this for $1.50. Now they're up to $2.50. But my taxes have doubled too. I can't understand it. Why don't we tax England instead of sending them all our taxes...
...father's weaseling answer: "Nice people never use that!" Said Sandra: "It must be all right, Daddy, President Truman said it yesterday...