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Word: nicely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...familiar action. Without this the movie is a formless as a jellyfish and generates about the same interest. Joel McCrea portrays a sincere bank-robber who hoists 2,000 realm of New Mexican sandstone wishing to hell he hadn't taken the dough. He falls in love with a nice-looking girl, does a few good deeds, said turns himself in before things...

Author: By George G. Daniels, | Title: Four Faces West | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

What's more, the spirit between the two clubs themselves could hardly be said to reflect the highest ideals of Happy Chandler. Admittedly the Braves lacked discretion when they publicly announced that they would far sooner play with those nice boys from Cleveland or New York with the 70,000 seating capacities. But the Red Sex rebuttal expressing deep sorrow that Jeff Heath had broken only his leg when it might so easily have been his neck bordered on the boorish...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 10/5/1948 | See Source »

Apparently, this Sox appeal stems from their ability to field a group of nice family men who can hit the ball with authority if not with fluesse. Women love the Fenway glamor-boys, a preference based partially on the fact that Dave Ferries (he's cute) managed to win 20 games during the war, and partly on the fact that one can follow the team with far less trouble than is necessary at the Wigwam...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 10/5/1948 | See Source »

Billie Burke, who now plays twittery movie matrons, used to be the vivacious, red-haired toast of New York. She earned $1,500 a week, kept a Rolls-Royce for herself and a "nice Packard" for her mother. She lived in a whirl of furs, maids and flowers, and married Follies Producer Florenz Ziegfeld. Last week in Collier's, Billie reminisced about the great Flo and the gaudy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Busy Life | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...great a variety that there is sure to be something in the store for everybody. Old hands at buying (and selling) "distress merchandise," they once bought eleven carloads of "surplus white enamel iron mosquito bars, converted them into wartime-scarce towel racks, and sold the whole caboodle at a nice profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Something for Everybody | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

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