Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Considering Dante as an artist and creator, Professor Grandaunt showed that the poet possessed the three factors which combine to make art--conception, selection, and expression--in the highest degree and in nice balance, Dante also offers in this "age of shallow self-expressiveness" a salutary example in "giving to us, by his skill and care in selection, as much by what he withholds as by what he tells...
...Gilbert, the leading man, who has recently incarnated himself as a cowpuncher, a preacher, a crook, and a wardboss, leaves behind him the roles of these necessary sorts of person, and becomes one Reginald Carter, a wholly unnecessary and thoroughly nice young man. Miss Lucille Adams, as Marcia, fills the part of a slight young creature with the required grace; Anna Laying as her sentimental mother borders upon burlesque; Jackson, played by Mark Kent, is himself, no less; Edward Darney, Houston Richards, and Miss Viola Roach perform their parts well; while Ralph Remley again shows himself a master of make...
Hollis.--"Nice People", by Rachel Crothers. Francine Larrimore will take her play away this week-end, leaving Boston's downtown theatres dramaless...
Hollis.--"Nice People", by Rachel Crothers and with Francine Larrimore; a serio-comedy in which we see ourselves as others...
...uncle's class expects to picnic merrily in his rooms the day after the party and the furniture is required to vanish somehow before 9 A. M. And of course at a late hour comes an appeal from an unexpected friend of the family; she usually wants a nice quiet room near the Campus, not a boarding house; nor too expensive, where she can get her meals comfortably. The Juniors and the rest depart, "the tumult and the shouting die", the Senior is left alone in his glory and he dare not forget...