Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sarah Frances Frost ("Julia Marlowe") "a saucer-eyed, yellow-skinned girl of mel ancholic temperament," began acting in the late 80's, when "Poor Eddie" (E. H. Sothern) was playing Brooklyn in a farce he had written. "A nice lovable boy," said his tor." family, Sothern "but he made will his never name in make an ac Frohman melodramas, and was recognized as a romantic actor after his notable success in The Prisoner of Zenda. Miss Marlowe, after three yeara of intensive training with a certain Miss Dow, her stage aunt, began to take leading parts. In 1904 they...
...Asked whether he thought that was nice," says the New York World, "he is said to have replied that this is a free country and that George Washington wore a powdered wig and blue satin trousers and nobody thought any the less of him for it." The World further indicates that Columbia undergraduates are taking to powder and lipstick in force. Athletic exertion makes their faces shine so disgustingly...
...pleasant sure to see one's name in print," and very nice of you indeed to mention in TIME, Sept. 7, Page 5, our recent attempt "towards Swampscott," but in legal phrase an exception is noted as to the word "rushed." The Lord, also Secretary Sanders, knows we did not rush; on the contrary we patiently awaited Senator Bingham's release of the President which did not occur until about 5 p. m. As this was too late for the hoped-for visit, we were persuaded to hold our "peace" until the President returns to Washington...
...even this disillusionment could not unseat the nice balance of Comrade Gulliver's judgment. He was able to keep his self-control on realizing that New York Postoffice guards carry revolvers: "What a dreadful idea that we can get a bullet in the throat, not in a furious insurrection, but simply for the safe transporation of money. Unmoved, he looked upon "railroad terminals . . . monuments to the capitalistic mammon . . . far less artistic than at Berlin...
Thirty years ago there was between the Consular and Diplomatic services an impassable gulf. No nice sweet-sixteener would have fancied herself in the former, however graphically she might have pictured herself married to the latter...