Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fertile wit. Buddha! What's the matter with Mahomet ? What's the matter with Confucius, to say nothing of Bab? And there is a sect called the Mormons, and there was Mrs. Eddy. What's the matter with any or all of these? Let's have a nice quiet lane in Central Park...
...watching what I wear, and my dresses didn't come today. Insufferable people, dressmakers. Mlle. Lenglen had on an elaborate thing on Monday, which gives her the idea that she's getting ahead of me. . . . She asked me to have tea with her at the Imperial Club at Nice. Her idea of tea was a bottle of champagne. We drank each other's healths. Not a word about tennis. She showed me the centre court where she beat Molla Mallory in 1923. I had on lavender and blue...
...hard as I could. She took three games in the second set. Critics said that I was better in this match than in any other here so far. . . . Suzanne Lenglen said that "circumstances over which she had no control might prevent her meeting me in the tournament at Nice." Well, if she doesn't play me then, she must in the Carleton Hotel tournament here...
...recess, two boys in a schoolyard begin quarreling over a nice red apple. One of them, by fair means or foul, procures it, whereupon the disgruntled lad shouts: "Ha! it's gotta woim hole. Ha! it's gotta woim hole! You got stung!" This kind of conduct is quite normal in shrill Jimmy Nine and smudgy Butch Ten?but when for the two lads you substitute a pair of famous daily newspapers, and for the red apple a valuable "feature," is such behavior decent? Is it dignified? People asked this question last week about the New York World...
Upon the probable consent of the member nations to these reservations the United States will become, to all intents and purposes, a full member of the World Court. As an international event, this move is of moment. As a political accomplishment, it presents a nice problem. The adherence has been promulgated under a resolution requested by a Republican president, introduced by a Democratic senator, sponsored by a non-partisan majority, and opposed by an irregular Republican minority. Does the act but fulfill the old Republican promise of 1920? Does it vindicate the leadership of Calvin Coolidge? Or does it split...