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Word: nicely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Slocum and Baldwin, the two forwards, have been heralded as the best Freshman pair in several years, and they lived up to many of the nice things said about them. The former featured with ten goals from the floor, but Baldwin outshone him in all around play. He was in the thick of the play throughout, and showed a remarkable faculty for getting the ball from a scrimmage. His passing was responsible for many of Slocum's goals, but his own shooting was rather erratic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1928 FORWARDS FLASH IN BASKETBALL OPENER | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

...poverty, married Pervus De Jong, Illinois potato man. No amount of grubbing could deaden Selina. After years of it, she could still stick radishes behind her ear and dance for Dirk, her boy, only "so big." Dirk grew up and trailed off into a dull love-jam involving a nice girl and a naughtyish one. Also, Selina, old and bent, peddled her potatoes on Prairie Avenue, Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jan. 12, 1925 | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

...because some of our fellow-students had no Christmas celebration: they were the patients at the Infirmary, and of all of us, they should have had it. They did not complain, nor did they shed tears about it, but still they perhaps think that it would have been nice if they had had their Christmas fun also. If would have cheered them up and made them forget their troubles for a while. We must see that hereafter they will not be omitted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 1/8/1925 | See Source »

...silks were invited, ever so politely by a young person near the door, to "dress a doll for a poor child." Sweet little dolls were exhibited, nude in their paste-board boxes. "For a poor child," thought kind sables and silks, just recently so well fed. What a nice idea! Yes, yes, of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sequelae | 12/22/1924 | See Source »

...twist like wild people!" gesticulated Madame Anna Pavlowa, world famous dancer, when asked for her opinion of modern ball-room dancing by a CRIMSON reporter who interviewed her after the performance at the Boston Opera house on Friday night. "Of course, it matters how you do it. Some are nice, yes, very nice,--but the others, they put themselves into it. It must be impersonal." Madame Pavlowa was still in the costume she had worn in her last dance, and on her face was the heavy make-up made necessary by her brilliant lighting effects. The dressing room walls were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Anna Pavlowa Reveals Her Opinions of Modern Dancers--"Some Are Nice, Yes, Very Nice,--But the Others!" | 12/8/1924 | See Source »

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