Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neither Elsie nor Henry could speak any English when they landed, but Henry found work in a meat factory in Lowell, and Elsie worked in Red Cross hospitals. "We were very happy and proud to be in America," Elsie explains, "the people were so nice, and at least you could go to bed at night and the police didn't pound on the door...
...What civilized person could ever imagine those nice Americans devising such a fiendish scheme as the Morgenthau plan . . ." Faces dimmed. ". . . to reduce Germany to an agrarian country? Such childish nonsensel! Ach ja, Hitler did lose the war for us, but did we not suffer enough? I am no Nazi . . ." Nodding heads in the group indicated that no one was, or indeed ever had been, a Nazi. ". . . but trying to force your Democracy on us like an insect spray, ja it was too silly...
From the moment his plane touched down at Nice airport last week, Morocco's ex-Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef made clear he was not returning as a suppliant, grateful to be allowed to return from remote Madagascar to a more congenial clime. Two hundred Moroccans stood in the drizzling rain to cheer him as he descended, svelte in grey djellabah and white pointed slippers, and followed by his two sons, four daughters, two wives and 19 veiled concubines. The Foreign Ministry had ordered a Riviera hotel specially reopened for him. But after only one night, Ben Youssef abruptly...
...accustomed to dolls "wit' nice teeth and no last names," so he makes Miss Brown a straight proposition: in return for her company, he promises to deliver twelve of "the Devil's first-string troops" to prayer meeting come Saturday night. She accepts, but in Havana the track is faster than she expected because Sky puts a hypo in her cow juice. Even so, they are soon lugging in on the preacher for a matrimonial finish...
...pacing, blocking, and maneuvering on a very small stage. There can be no argument with his deft exploitation of rather difficult and challenging scenes. The setting by Panos Ghikas and Natalie Johnson's costumes are extremely well-conceived and well-executed, and Paul Des Marais' entr'acte music is nice if brief...