Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hope none of this gets back to the States. I'm going home to get married to a nice girl." But the story, floating out in the ship's wake, was already around the world. The original Ada Rehan would have been horrified to learn how her name was being bandied about...
Even Bedsheets. Of all European countries, France was most enthusiastic in welcoming tourists and foreign exchange. Railways were mending their torn roadbeds, the glamorous Blue Train to the Riviera was back in service, nightclubs now got enough electricity to stay open till dawn, and the municipality of Nice grandly announced: "Our hotels are ready, our guests will lack neither bedsheets nor tablecloths." But about half of France's hotels were still closed, and many of the rest were filled with Frenchmen who wanted a vacation themselves. The beaches of Normandy and Brittany were still dotted with maverick German mines...
Billy Rose is a fat little entrepreneur with a beautiful wife who never went to college. Yesterday Billy Rose made a show biz generalization: not only did his wife never go to college, but "with very few exceptions beautiful girls don't go to college." Just as nice as that...
...just bought the $1 million Long Island estate pf deceased capitalist George Dupont Pratt for a reported $120,000 (see INTERNATIONAL) . He himself had received a box of flowers from an admirer who wrote "God bless you and Uncle Joe" and signed himself "Rock-ribbed Republican." The scenery was nice too. Gromyko even accepted a light from a reporter for the Russophobe Chicago Tribune...
...last season's American League home-run king thought he was worth more to the St. Louis Browns than they did. So Vern ("Meat") Stephens packed off to see the nice man in Mexico City who said things like: "Bah! What is money? I have forty, fifty, sixty million...