Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Will Menninger himself is a convincing explanation of why the public is getting less skittish about psychiatry. Plainly neither a crackpot nor a "foreigner," Psychiatrist Menninger is a big (6 ft. 1 in., 189 lbs.), friendly "nice guy." He is genuinely modest about holding practically all the top posts in his profession ("They shoved me up there"). He takes his job of promoting psychiatry as seriously as if he were a Midwestern drummer selling widgets; he used to carry in his pocket a little black book full of jokes and limericks, ready for impromptu speeches at medical dinners. (He lost...
...kept telling his all-too-tame Wildcats that they had to hate the guy across the line from them. Only a few days before, an eager freshman had driven a first-string tackle out of a play. When the big varsity man picked himself up, smiled and said, "Nice block," Coach Voigts got mad. "When the kid dumped you," he said, "you should have snarled." On Saturday against Minnesota, just when things looked blackest, the Wildcats began to snarl...
Last week, the American public was treated to a nice long look at the seamy side of our international politics. It was an excellent view, uneluttered by any of the ideological garbage currently in vogue. What they saw was Secretary of State Marshall and other prominent men stumbling all over themselves to get on the right side of Spain's midget despot, General Francisco Franco. The new love affair was concentrated power politics. Franco wanted readmission to the family of nations. He offered the United States access to the vital Spanish Peninsula and the use of his Moorish troops...
Second on the list of attractions is "Bad Sister," an English offering that ranks far below the usual foreign product. Margaret Lockwood and Joan Greenwood, two very nice-looking dames, take the audience to the Riveria and Finland on a pair of tragic love affairs. The high point comes in Finland where Miss Lockwood is serenaded by a high-frequencied soprano with a face like a bilious brook trout...
...Machine. At the controls of the Drew machine was Alexander D. McKenzie, a Toronto lawyer with cold blue eyes, a hard jaw and a nice sense of timing. Under McKenzie's direction, Drew workers exerted no visible pressure. But the invisible pressure was irresistible. It built up gradually day by day as McKenzie carefully organized "spontaneous" gatherings of delegates, then called in Drew to radiate charm and say nothing...