Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that real "sophistication" lies in the way you know things, not in the things you know. Katherine Brush qualifies either way you like. Being the daughter of Headmaster Charles S. Ingham of Dummer Academy (South Byfield, Mass.), only 26 and surpassing fair, she comes naturally by her understanding of nice young modern emotions. How she assimilated the more feverish, spotty metropolitan spectacle-down to the contents of a drug-store cowboy's frayed wallet, stage door argot and the private thoughts of night club Neros-is another story. She worked on metropolitan newspapers, married T. Stewart Brush...
Similarly in his essays, Alfred Noyes, commentator, says nicely what he has to say but what he has to say has almost all been said. For this reason he is a most serviceable person. He wraps up the commonplace with loving care and presents it with an expression combining sturdy faith and "lest we forget" to people who only get confused when they read "clever" writers. How truly useful this ingenuousness is can be estimated almost mathematically. The "American Impressions" in his new book* were written for the London Times. To U. S. readers it will seem that Mr. Noyes...
...Ileana," said Her Majesty crisply, "will probably not marry for a year at least, nor will her brother Nicholas. . . . Ileana liked the way American boys danced and conducted themselves. She liked their great deference and reverence toward womankind, too. I would have no objection to her marrying a nice young American, if she really loved him and I thought they would get along well together...
People who compared the Tribune's performance with the attitudes of other newspapers were reminded of a remark once credited to Mrs. Lena Wilson Stillman, which seemed to summarize the entire event: "Nice people are nice the whole world over...
...Deauville, France. She, once Miss Kate Davis of Georgetown, D. C., was a cousin of President Jefferson Davis of the Southern Confederacy. To the last her remarkable beauty mellowed rather than waned; and she was of the elect among U. S. hostesses in Europe possessing superb homes in Nice, Deauville. Three sons survive: Ralph and Herbert Pulitzer, respectively editor and an executive of the World and Publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the St. Louis Post-Despatch. Also has living 2 daughters, Edith, wife of Wm. Scoville Moore; Constance, wife of Wm. Gray Elmslie...