Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...borrowed from other artists as well; until two years before the end, Wood's work was shamelessly eclectic. Then, at little resorts on the coasts of Brittany and Cornwall, he learned to paint nudes and landscapes in a nice, decorative, pleasant style of his own. London Sunday Times Critic Eric Newton has supplied some loftier adjectives for it. "One must be content," he wrote, taking a deep breath, "with saying that Christopher Wood possessed the gift of making everyday things both magical and mystical, and of performing the miracle endlessly. The ingredients of his magic are things available...
...mother's young housemaid, and learned about the same time that his mother meant to run his life. Especially, she was determined to pick his wife, and after Yale and his father's death, Ralph was the town's prize catch. But he turned down the nice girl of his mother's choice and became that much-whispered-about institution, the town bachelor...
...lastly, what does she do in her spare time? Guzzle chocolate sodas in a nice warm drugstore? She would probably be the first to squawk about higher taxes to rearm the Europeans, in order to save our own men, and probably the last to be caught rolling bandages, or writing letters to servicemen, or anything else, at least on the volunteer basis...
...certainly was nice while it lasted...
...Indianapolis, the Indiana House of Representatives thought it would be nice if the local theater attraction, Mae West, would pay them a visit. Representative John R. Ryan, appointed a committee of one to extend the invitation, brought back his report: "She can't come. She asked me what time we met, and I told her 10 a.m. She said: 'Jack, where I come from, the roosters don't even take off their muzzles until...