Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surprised at the nice people you can meet that...
Director John Farrow not only helped to write a pretty lively script, but managed to keep his highly volatile star and story under control. Also doing double duty is Songwriter Frank Loesser who, besides contributing a nice burlesque of a marcelled thug named Hair-Do Lempke, composed the songs which Betty sandwiches in between her Keystone clowning...
...Nice? When she finds it necessary, Queen Mary can speak her mind. Once she was opening a training center for girl domestics. Up-to-date kitchens gleamed with all the latest appliances. The anxious ladies in charge cocked their ears for the queen's words of approval. "It's too hot in here for those girls," said Queen Mary. "I'll send round an electric fan tomorrow." Next day the fan arrived. In an age marked by universal uncertainty on moral questions, Britain's elder Queen is plagued by few if any doubts...
Safely back in Hollywood after flooring a glamor girl who wanted his panda doll in a Manhattan nightclub (TIME, Oct. 10), Tough Guy Humphrey Bogart reminisced a bit. The judge who dismissed the girl's suit, he thought, was "a nice guy-the Frank Morgan type." But Bogart decided that the real hero of the incident was Bogart, who had "wised some people up about the notion that they can push celebrities around." He added: "I'd say it compared to the Dreyfus case. You might report that I struck a blow for freedom, not to mention...
...Harris, who made news a year ago by being fired as manager of the New York Yankees, it was a chance to get back after serving as manager of the San Diego Padres in the Pacific Coast League. Says Bucky: "San Diego is a nice town. The pay is fine. So are the folks. But it's still bush." Although the Senators were not likely to go anywhere (under his management or anybody else's), bossing the worst team in the majors was better than bossing the best in the minors...