Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Dr. Frank Crane, 67, famed U. S. religious journalist, onetime Methodist minister; of diabetes; in Nice, France. For almost 20 years Dr. Crane's daily, syndicated 600-word sermons reached 20,000,000 readers. They have been collected in 45 volumes. Dr. Crane's estimated annual income was $150,000. "If you should ask me," he wrote, "whether I am a Trinitarian or a Unitarian, a Catholic or a Protestant, Fundamentalist or Modernist, Methodist or Baptist, you might as well ask if I am a Guelph or a Ghibelline...
...mail-littered table. "Oh, I'll look that over later," he said. Mr. Raskob's emissaries bore another envelope, addressed to Herbert Hoover. At the latter's campaign house, they were received by Bradley D. Nash, the number-two secretary, a cheerful young gentleman (Harvard) with nice manners. Mr. Nash was embarrassed and courteous but, of course, Mr. Raskob's emissaries left without any answer from Mr. Nash's chief...
Proudly announced by the French Government's new Office Français du Tourisme in Manhattan was the opening, last week, of a new transAlpine railway linking smart Monte Carlo and Nice directly with Northern Italy, Switzerland, Germany...
...will scuttle back and forth on the shore, cackle and screech and flap her wings, but that's the ineffective best she can do for an incongruous brood gliding serenely off to midpond. Mr. Meadows was a very nice old hen, his scuttlings were well-bred, his cacklings mellifluous. In a charming London house he brought up his daughters and entertained their friends. But when his dependable older daughter began to champion one of these, a violent young political laborite; and his darling younger daughter confessed she had allowed another, a scandalous man-about-town, to make love...
...Most Badly Defeated Candidate Ever Running for Presidency." Then there was standard stuff: "Drunk Negro Boosting Smith," "Kissing Pope's Ring Insult to Flag," "Tirades on Religion and Liquor by Smith in West Turn Voters in Disgust." But, here and there, The Fellowship Forum would say something nice; one week, on the Women's Page, was a glowing sketch of Mrs. Herbert Hoover. One of the owners of The Fellowship Forum was aboard the Hoover special train on the Tennessee trip. Another owner is the Republican nominee for Governor in Virginia...