Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Done Up Nice." It seemed like a lot of money. He never drank-New York was so exciting that it drove his imagination crazy without it-but he "loved life, done up nice." On Saturday nights he dressed in his best and saw the city. He ate at Healy's famed restaurant on 66th Street, and watched "how the dainty people acted there." He saw every show in town. He worked hard to lose his brogue-he was determined not to go on being a gawky country...
They are far from Rousseau's nice notions about the Noble Savage-but they aren't nearly as crazy as Americans and Europeans. So reports Dr. J. C. Carothers" in the current issue of the U.S. quarterly Psychiatry. For nine years Dr. Carothers was government medical officer in various parts of the colony, for seven more, medial officer in charge of the Mathari Mental Hospital...
...wicked old man abhorred dictatorships, left or right. When the Germans came to Paris he fled first to Nice, then to North Africa. Already past 72, he went on writing in an Arab village near Tunis, completed his translation of Hamlet. He learned La Fontaine's fables by heart and later founded a literary review (L'Arche) in liberated Algiers. A stream of bigwigs came to his bedroom-study to pay their respects. Communists in the Algiers Consultative Assembly paid theirs by asking that he be tried and put to death. In the spring of 1945 he returned...
After five days, the Rotarians departed, leaving Rio pleased, relieved, and vaguely disappointed. The cariocas had expected antics and amusement, maybe a few Lana Turners and Betty Grables. Instead they had seen middleaged, middle-class North America. Said a Rio hairdresser wistfully: "They were very nice-but so plain...
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