Word: nicely
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...train puffed in, Nice's station shook with yelling and whistling. Flop-coated French zazous (hepcats) raced alongside. France's best "jazz hot" band let go a welcoming riff as big-eyed Louis Armstrong and his U.S. delegation stepped down...
...Nice last week was holding the first International Jazz Festival. Jazz fans from all over Western Europe (including G.I.s given special leave from Germany) flocked to it. In Nice's plum-plush opera house, they heard jazz from seven nations, including three brands of U.S. stuff. Ex-Ellington Trumpeter Rex Stewart and his sextet, garish in grey-green homespun and corn-yellow ties, set the joint jumping. But when Louis & his boys† burned a way through Rockin' Chair, St. Louis Blues and That's My Desire (with 200-lb. Velma Middleton rocking the lyrics), the fans...
...week's end, with Nice already drunk with jazz, the international festival reached a shattering finale in Nice's Hotel Negresco with all of the bands blaring in turn. (Satchmo Armstrong was presented with a Sévres vase sent by France's President Vincent Auriol...
Said a white-haired usherette at the Nice opera house, preparing for next week's opera season, "It will be good to get back to oldtime tranquillity. My head is like a swollen squash...
...feel" of the week's news, to figure out what is important and what isn't. He has probably sent out 40 or 50 notes to editors and writers. These include suggestions ranging from an outline of the lead story in National Affairs to a nice phrase from the Economist. A dozen times a day, he is in touch with his senior editors and with Executive Editor Roy Alexander, whose job is to keep the editorial machinery running smoothly...