Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another witness, Mr. Bixby, testified that "everybody who sees a nice tree seems to start a cry for a new public park...
GREENERY STREET-Denis Mackail -Houghton Mifflin ($2.00). To make a novel out of commonplace incidents in the first year of a pair of young English newlyweds, and avoid being "wet,"* is something of an achievement. Author MacKail has done it, with a very nice mixture of mock solemnity and featherweight irony. That is all there is to Greenery Street-two charming children, Ian and Felicity, finding their love-nest, scrimmaging with bills, terrified of their servants, diffidently "philosophizing." A very lovely elder sister almost gives the story a serious background by trying to bolt from her husband with another...
...Stepney Borough Council (London) decided that certain Limehouse slums must go. The Condemnation Commissioner went to have a look at the squalor-stricken old houses, where finnan haddie has been smoked for the past 150 years. He was met with a storm of opposition. Nobody wanted nice, new, sanitary homes, not even the large families sleeping six and more in a bedroom. "How would our homer pigeons find their way back?" they asked. "Could fish be cured on stone landings ?" "Could wireless aerials be strung across asphalt courtyards?" Limehouse now has its blues...
Last spring (TIME, Mar. 9) Congressmen decided to increase the pay of postal employes an aggregate of $68,000,000 a year. Congress was then in a nice quandary. How could it increase revenues that amount without offending everyone concerned? It patched up some kind of law and passed it, promising that it was only tentative and would be revised at the next session...
...Kiosk is to be turned into a casino on the lines of those at Monte Carlo and Nice. Hotel accommodations, cinemas, amusement parks, are also to be constructed. The Turks hope many people will come to Constantinople...