Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the session, Giral hurried to his limousine. He popped out when he remembered he had not said goodbye to Lange, his keenest supporter on the subcommittee. Lange said: "It was nice to have...
...best catcher ever to put on a big-league mitt. He was first-string backstop when McCarthy took over the Yankees in 1931, and was still behind the plate last week. Bill Dickey was a big fellow (6 ft. 3 in.) who seldom had much to say, but a nice way of saying it. His only previous experience as a manager was in the Navy: his club won six straight against the Army in 1945's Service World Series...
Onetime haberdasher Truman, the story related, will take over operation of the store in 1948 ("It will be nice to get back to the old grind"). Henry Wallace will run the union suit department, Clinton Anderson the company cafeteria, Ed Pauley will take charge of the furnace, "an oil burner." Edward Stettinius will be a model in the men's ready-to-wear suit department, will be used in the store window on dull days. "It would be an ideal job for Ed," the President claimed. "He wouldn't have to open his mouth." Storytelling George Allen...
Europe in the Spring. "The first King and Queen with whom I broke bread abroad," he goes on, remembering the trip to the Peace Conference in 1919, "were King George and Queen Mary." The King made a little quip; the Queen "was not greatly amused"; they all had a nice lunch. While in Paris for the Peace Conference, the Secretary went to the opera with Admiral W. S. Benson, U.S. Naval Adviser. Benson was "shocked at the near nakedness of the actresses and the risque remarks," and wanted to walk out. Says Daniels: "I quite shared his feelings but told...
...after a couple of days of it, Spud had had enough. He didn't like the nightclubs nor the food, grumbled: "Ulcers- that's what I'd get, here." And he hadn't found a wife. Spud headed back to Yellowknife and "some nice, clean...