Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said a Denver vegetable-stand proprietor: "We did some smart voting for once. We voted in that nice young Newton-then we fixed it so Young Quigg can't get to be Old Quigg, like Old Ben done...
...nice to be back in Washington. After six years of wartime exile, 5,500 Daughters of the American Revolution descended on Constitution Hall for their 56th annual convention, filled up the hotels, overflowed into most of the department stores, antique shops and restaurants, eddied discreetly into cocktail lounges. Then they settled down to the strenuous business of recording their views on national affairs and electing a new president. First came the resolutions. The ladies were against: world government (though "earnestly in support" of world organization), Communism, immigration, federal aid to education (as an invasion of states' rights) and radio...
...Central Valley (N.Y.) high-school team this season, the bases were loaded. He calmly struck out the next three men. Then he pitched two no-hit, no-run games and struck out 34 batters in the process. They were his 26th and 27th victories in a row. So a nice man from the Chicago Cubs breezed into Bob's home town, the sleepy little Hudson River hamlet of Harriman, just ahead of a nice man from the New York Yankees...
...unusual and artful thriller. Along the sand comes a Coast Guardsman (Robert Ryan), still shaky enough from an experience with a torpedo to be excused some of his sins in this film. His sins are extensive and, for a movie hero, pretty human. He is engaged to a nice girl (Nan Leslie), but when she proves too nice and cautious to marry him in haste, he takes up with Joan, begins making love to her in a sinister-looking seaside wreck. He also meets Joan's peculiar husband (Charles Bickford...
Along the French Riviera, most of the war damage was repaired. The famed. white Negresco hotel in Nice was open, A meal with wine at Cagnes-sur-Mer cost 60?. All told, in eleven days in France, he exchanged only $52 at the official rate...