Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...things, if you want to put it that way, which not every man could open up. So that you can imagine how I felt when I met this other man from Harvard, who was on the Lampoon, He read it. He kept calling it "your stuff", which was rather nice of him, I thought...
...grand dukes who were most in the public eye, last week: 1) The Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaievitch, onetime Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armies on the Western Front (1914-15) and brother-in-law of Queen Elena of Italy, who lay in a dying condition last week at Nice; and 2) The Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovitch, grandson-in-law of British Queen Victoria, who continues to proclaim himself "Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias," in succession to his assassinated cousin Tsar Nicholas II. & Last...
Today such sardonic defiance of an Absolute Autocrat and a Hypnotist-Monk may seem more witty than significant; but at the time it took titanic courage. No wonder the last, scattered, phantom remnants of the Imperial Army have remained fanatically loyal to Nicholas. Last week, in Nice, the Grand Duke, stricken with pneumonia, sank low, and lower. Oxygen was finally administered and some recovery noted; but tearful, fatalistic members of Nicholas' entourage seemed to sense and fear that the old warrior was joining his last battle with Death...
...rest of the issue, the editorial and paragraph leaders have about them a sort of musty Transcript atmosphere of polite futility and the advertisements are very nice...
...Manhattan a fortnight ago came Composer Ottorino Respighi for the U. S. premiere of his Sunken Bell at the Metropolitan Opera House (TIME, Dec. 3). Last week he turned pianist, played with the Philharmonic-Symphony his new Toccata for piano and orchestra. Again critics marked his nice patterns, his smooth, glowing colors...