Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nice Pest." The trouble with the first two radio versions was that they strayed too far from the original of Sally Benson's bobbysoxer. The first try (1942), starring Shirley Temple, cost a weighty $12,000 a week, an expenditure that overshot the show's modest Hooperating. A second attempt (1946) made Judy into such an unpleasant young monster that listeners stopped listening. "After all," sputters Author Benson in recollection, "Junior Miss Judy Graves is a nice little girl-a pest, but a nice pest. . ." The new Junior Miss is neither overweight nor out of focus...
Rick started his golfing at the tender ago of six, when his father decided it would be a nice idea if the whole family took part in his weekend tour of the Briarcliff links. "I just hacked away until the age of 15. Then it suddenly occurred to me that maybe I ought to really start learning...
...meet the outcry against differences in rates between different sections of the country,* the government ordered the Board of Transport Commissioners to look into the possibility of equalizing rates. It would take about a year, and in the end it would probably mean little, but on paper it looked nice. Furthermore, the survey might help to quiet Liberals from the Maritimes and the West who had joined the Opposition in protesting the new charges...
Just how good is Coaltown? Bookmakers had already made him No. 2 in the Kentucky Derby winter book. Said Trainer Ben Jones, casually: "A nice colt, but he hasn't had the experience. Citation is the greatest horse in the country." No man to hedge his bets, Ben also trains Citation, the even-money favorite to win Kentucky's greatest horse race...
Indications were strong that nothing would happen. Vice-president Bob "Yawn" Crichton '50 gostured vaguely in the general direction of the Union, and murmured from behind his satyr-like visage, "Union, nice place to live, no quorum. But it's so far from Cronin's . . ." and he lapsed into customary hordrontalism...