Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...David Belasco, "who has done more to enrich and to advance the dramatic art of. this country than has any other single producer;" Gertrude Atherton "planted the state of California on our mental map;" Richard Harding Davis "liked to think himself the Rough Rider of literature;" "Cissle Loftus?"a nice girl and needed the money;" Irene and Vernon Castle and the founding of "Castle House;" the long legs of Vernon Castle; a Spartan War-mother and a slacking son; the Shuberts?"mere striplings, dark-haired, dark-eyed and determined; a face three-quarters shot away; Belgians who refused to shoot...
...sport is not so very old in the college, or even in the state; but there always must be a first time, and as a result of the winning of this championship, men have come to regard squash racquets more as a competitive sport, and less as a nice, pleasant pastime for society dilettantes, and for business men in search of exercise. As a minor sport, squash has firmly established itself in the University, and from the stand-point of popularity, it is the second winter sport...
Some of these stories are not what is generally considered nice. Stories of suppressed eroticism, of girls gone wrong and that sort of thing, told with almost Biblical frankness, can hardly fall to startle one now and then with bald adherence to reality. Sometimes one is offended. But these are not the only themes. The most delightful parts of the book, from our own point of view are those concerned with horses and racing which the author appears to love so genuinely. His dedication to Dreiser shows better than anything else his appreciation of horses. "To Theodore Dreiser, in whose...
...writers they have selected to aid them. Carl Van Doren, Theodore Dreiser, James Gibbons Hunneker, "a man who because of his official position cannot sign his name," and a member of the staff of the extinct New York Call (Socialist)--all of them with some bone to pick with "nice people"--have contributed to the first number. Although the magazine will be a review, according to its editors "like every other monthly review the world have ever seen," it will be a review, as was the Repetition Generale in the Smart Set, seen through and colored by the editor...
...exactly a 'dirt farmer' radical, but spent a good deal of the evening with his arm around Magnus Johnson's shoulder. When Hoover removed that arm, it was to give President Coolidge a chance to put his arm there instead. . . . President Coolidge made a nice speech and talked more about Magnus Johnson than anything or anyone else. He even told a story that apparently has only just reached Massachusetts, but is old in Alaska and the Philippines, about the rabbit pie. The man admitted that he put some horse meat in the rabbit pie, and said...