Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning, Sayde's maid answered the doorbell, saw two characters with stockings pulled over their faces. "This is a nice way to enter a person's home," Sayde observed. She was understating it. One of the men clubbed her on the head and face with the flat of a gun. "Where's the big ring?" the gunman wanted to know. She said the store...
...Institute Director Rich, the doodle called Cyclops seemed "a rather gentle, nice monster...
Villagers of Filkins, in the lush green Cotswolds, where Cripps was the local squire, tell a significant story of his earlier days there. Cripps heard that a shiftless villager called Old Joe was in debt. He went to see him. "Nice little house you have here," said Sir Stafford. "You don't want to sell...
...gives you something to talk to your mates about," said one. When Cripps toured aircraft factories as Minister of Aircraft Production during World War II,. factory girls literally sighed. " 'E's got ever such a nice way with im," said one. " 'E thanks you ever so nicely when you show him anything-and 'e seems to know what 'e's talking about...
Scarlett O'Hara's creator, Atlantan Margaret Mitchell, made a gracious Old Confederate response to a compliment. British Cinemagnate J. Arthur Rank's wife, Nell, had said something nice about Gone With the Wind on a visit to Atlanta last summer; but Author Mitchell was away at the time. So now, at length, she made the reciprocal gesture. To Mrs. Rank she sent a note of thanks, and enclosed a souvenir $5 Confederate bill...