Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bums and loafers. They keep daughter Clara under strict surveillance, follow when she goes to the station to meet her father. As Bill Green steps down from his Pullman they gather round to greet him. The exchange of conversation is always the same. Green says: "It was awfully nice of you fellows to come down to meet me." There is a moment of shuffling and a spokesman for the bums and loafers says something about times being hard, Billy. Green acts surprised and helps out with dollar bills. Everyone goes away happy...
Outwardly France was calm. Bitter winter was at hand, but so long as the soft autumn days lasted, people tried to forget. Madame Suzanne Schreiber, attending the annual Radical Party Congress in Nice, splashed like hundreds of others in the sea. As the Paris art season opened, Modernist Painter Man Ray's Le Beau Temps (Fair Weather) caused a mild buzz. A world congress of magicians bemused the Paris public in acts-one of which, said a wag, should be called the comrade and the fellow traveler. On Montmartre the celebration of the grape harvest turned into a fancy...
Around effete Eastern streams, trout that size are merely measured, not weighed, and an 18 or 19-incher like the General's, if referred to at all, is called "a nice fish...
...TIME'S National Affairs editor (no fisherman, he) did the shuffling: the General caught a 5½-pounder all right, but the photographer caught him with the "nice fish...
...would be nice if you could trust all coaches like that," said Harlow after the game. "Instead you've got cobras and pythons striking at you from all angles, and that's why I call it the "Jungle...