Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unanimously, the executive committee of the ancestor-worshiping Daughters of the American Revolution decided to keep its Constitution Hall for "white artists only." Miss Scott could not, as she had asked, give a concert there. Said D.A.R. President General Mrs. Julius Y. Talmadge of Georgia: "It was a nice harmonious meeting...
...Army . . . draw monthly $36. ... I'll bum cigarets when I am broke, but I'll never admire or respect these people who throw thousands of dollars away to show off their kids. . . . Maybe some day I'll have a fur coat and a swell watch, nice home and family-but damn I'll work like hell and raise my family with more sense and value of love and security than any of those 400 class kids will ever have...
Although Balzac once described the population of Paris as a horrible-looking horde, thousands of Parisians like to look and smell nice at all times. They had tough going during the war. when the quality of lotions, dyes, perfumes and other cosmetics deteriorated. Now, with peace, they are faced with higher prices because of higher taxes...
...bistro on the French Riviera one night in August 1944, a pianist lazily fingered a nostalgic ballad from a crudely cleffed manuscript. Some G.I.s at the bar asked to hear it again. The musician played it once more, and then told its history. A Jewish friend of his in Nice, hunted by the Gestapo, had written it three years before, had left it with a publisher, then fled to the Alpes-Maritimes to join a band of the Maquis. Its title reflected its composer's despair: C'est Fini (It Is Finished...
...Worlds. "The world inhabited by ordinary, nice unregenerate people is ... so dull that they have to distract their minds from being aware of it by all sorts of artificial 'amusements.'. . . For those who have deserved the world by making themselves fit to see God within it as well as within their own souls, it wears a very different aspect...