Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roundup is jaloviina, which is a mixture of brandy and alcohol distilled from wood. But the Lapps also like foreign firewaters. I just happened to have with me a bottle of Scotch. My interpreter foolishly mentioned this fact, and we were presently informed that it would be a nice gesture if we offered a drink to the Lapp chieftain. The chieftain, of course, had to pass it along to some sub-chieftains and the stuff was gone before you could say jaloviina ... It is wonderful to be out in the field after so many years of peering at the world...
...Record story continues, "Harvard, officially, wants football to be a nice, genteel game played by uppercrust boys--at however, the same admission fees. He (Jordan) is saying that football should be emphasized, and re-emphasized, and not de-emphasized...
story from Johannesburg, Correspondent Alexander Campbell was advised by another writer to buy himself "a nice bulletproof...
...huge, handsome Rifleman William ("Samson") Speakman of the Black Watch. It was the eve of Guy Fawkes Day (Nov. 5), a day on which Britons remember with firecrackers the anniversary of the 1605 "Gunpowder Plot" on Parliament, and that gave Samson an idea. "Let's build up a nice pile of grenades," he suggested to Sergeant "Dolly" Duncan. "Then, when the Commies come, we'll let 'em have it." Dolly agreed, and the two set to work filling a trench with hand grenades and chuckling over the Guy Fawkes surprise they were planning...
...famed as a cabaret hostess among Paris' Left Bank literary set in the '20s. Asked if she remembered F. Scott Fitzgerald, the throaty West Virginia-born Negro songstress said: "Sho-nuf darling, I remember all those darlings. There was Scott, and his wife Zelda, she was nice. There was Hemingway, too, already famous. And Louis Bromfield and John Steinbeck. Steinbeck, he's my darling of all darlings, except of course Cole Porter. He's my favorite in all the world...