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Word: nicely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...depressing antics, his spook dramas and extended productions of ham pieces. His old patrons have all quietly removed to the even hamier perlieus of the Henry Jewett sideshow on Huntington Avenue, but one feels that Mr. Clive, when peeping through a hole in the asbestos curtain, must miss the nice old ladies with ear trumpets, the nice old gentlemen with sidewhiskers, and the nice schoolkids who used to consider "Charley's Aunt" such a thriller. The Copley is now given over to strange and uncouth peasants from far places, and gents who wear caps for headgear, and the tense moment...

Author: By L. H. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/14/1927 | See Source »

...have emerged from nowhere to win no prizes for their anonymous authors. In a bygone day, a slogan contest would have seemed as absurd as the idea of women voting. Fancy a dame of 1840 penning a note to a Mrs. Hubbard of Chesterton, Md.: "We have received your nice slogan and it wins the prize." In 1840, men were shouting in the torchlit streets: "Fifty-four-forty or fight!" In 1856, Republicans punned: "Free soil, free speech, free men and Fremont." A resounding, if somewhat vague, slogan was Theodore Roosevelt's cry in 1912: "We stand at Armageddon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Slogans | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...feet and follows me about in a natural impulse to help me. Nothing I know how to say will prevent them. Personally I am baffled. But I'm wondering if you can't help me?" Questions of this latter type?deal-ing with the problems of modern "nice people" who are often servant-less?give Mrs. Post scope for something new in conduct counsel. She advises servantless hostesses to give buffet suppers, and thus remain cool, charming?it is as simple as that Additionally, of course, the new volume revamps some 600 pages of Mrs. Post's well standardized advice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In Conduct | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...Haven seems very much like Joliet to me in its air. Of course it's a big city, but every one is so nice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 12/7/1927 | See Source »

...News representative recently. "I have been having the best time in New Haven and I think the boys here are so much nicer than college people other places. No, I haven't been to Boston yet, but I am sure the fellows there couldn't give me as nice a time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 12/7/1927 | See Source »

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