Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...house," made a habit of dropping in at local auctions every now & then, to pick up a fresh one. Six years ago she had spent $6 on a little watercolor of a farmer trailing home with his scythe at dusk, because she "liked the coloring." It looked very nice in the living room, until a friend of the family happened to suggest she look under the edge of the frame to see if the picture had a signature. It had: Winslow Homer...
John Alden Knight holds that there is "one nice thing about fishing-you can always put 'em back." He is not the kind of angler who takes the limit catch. But his splashingly successful four-month-old syndicated newspaper feature is helping fishermen in 35 states and three Canadian provinces hook more trout, bass and muskies than ever before...
...Nice Mess." Knight writes seven localized sport columns to go with the tables, so that the Portland Oregonian can tell its readers when to go deer hunting while the Miami News tips off its readers to the best sail-fishing time. Among other subscribers: the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Bulletin...
...tables. Sample, from a satisfied Minnesota reader: "On June 1, I went fishing around 7 p.m. The major fishing period [on your table] that night was at 10 p.m. I didn't get a strike until 9:45. From that time until 10:30 I caught a nice mess of crappies, weighing around two pounds each, and the sun fish were extra large." News like that makes Knight glow all over...
...Jane Wyman). This offers a chance for a tedious kind of bedroom humor from which westerns used to be a refuge; at one point Mr. Morgan and Miss Wyman, snug under separate blankets, even play footie. Entertaining moment: Janis Paige, bulging a skintight costume and singing Cheyenne, a pretty nice oat-fed tune...