Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...some of the ill-spleened railers who love to carp at Harvard morals, some of those nice, good people who boast of having educated themselves, and never realize that they had a very poor teacher, if some of these would some time attend the college church services and observe the rapt attention with which Wendell Phillips and his colleagues are listened to, they would pause for a moment before trying to convince the world that college students are embryo Mephistopheles, and very minions of the lord of Hades let loose upon a lamb-like public, and going about seeking whom...
...DEAR EDITORS: George has been so very nice as to send me your paper regularly, and I have enjoyed intensely your delightful witticisms and charming verse. I enclose you a little piece of my own poetry...
...says he don't like goodies, but he's stuck up, anyhow, and I heard Miss May tell Miss Archer yesterday that she thought Fred real conceited, there now! But Jenny May, that's Miss May's sister, says she's mashed on Fred. How funny. Jenny's a nice girl, only she will tease a feller about kissing people. Well, I never kissed a girl, - 'd'ruther play marbles. I ain't afraid of girls, though, except Jenny, she's so mean. She'll know more when she grows up. Fred, he goes to Harvard. I wouldn...
...public has passed and is executing judgment upon him in its own way; a way somewhat harsh and severe it must be admitted, and sometimes reprehensibly so, but on the whole entirely just, we claim. Society, in a technical sense, may have foolishly coddled and patronized this nice young man, but the genuine public has expressed its emphatic disapproval of such proceedings. If Mr. Wilde is sincere (and there are grave and justifiable reasons for doubting this), then all that is to be said is that his ideals of right and beauty differ from those of most men; and that...
...nice young men of London have hit upon a new craze. Labouchere, of Truth, says: "I observed a young man with unmistakable rogue upon his cheeks. I am told that the fashion of making up the complexion is by no means unknown among our gilded youth...