Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Painter Graham Sutherland divides his time and affections between the green downs of Kent and the blue sweep of the Riviera. His paintings have the neatness of one and the brightness of the other. For all that, no one would describe wan, sociable Graham Sutherland's pictures as "nice." He paints twisted roots, withered brambles and bits of sea wrack in a way that makes them look like people in torment...
...books which I've had in stock three or four years. I put it to him squarely: they "won't sell unsigned, but if you'll autograph them I can sell them in New York next week. Like a good pal he obliged, and a nice lunch thrown in as well...
After everybody had eaten lunch and the judge was satisfied that Homer Marsh was still none the worse, his honor tossed out the $8,000 damage suit against the Oklahoma Coca-Cola Bottling Co. The judge dismissed the jury. "I hope you have a nice meal tonight," said the judge, "... and a bottle of Coke...
...necessarily the answer the country would adopt, but one thing was certain. The present draft procedures would be tightened, and many of the nice exemptions, particularly those that shielded college students, would be dropped. And probably that law would be changed to make 18-year-olds subject to the draft. It would be a bitter pill for youngsters and their parents, but the nation had no other choice...
...bookstore on New York's Lexington Avenue, bought about $70 worth of titles, mostly on atomic energy, the H-bomb and air power. Later they came back for $80 worth more, including Vogue's Book of Etiquette, which would keep them posted on such nice points as Manners in Public Places, Behavior of a Debutante, "One World" Etiquette, Fox Hunting, On Being Entertained at the White House...