Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Polo Grounds one day, The Lip declared, with a flip of his hand: "I don't want any nice guys on my ball club. The nice guys are over there on the Giants' bench, and where are they? In last place...
...nice to know that while visiting Mexico President Truman wiped out one hundred years of misunderstanding and bitterness in one minute [TIME, March...
...Russians last week wailed like so many wronged Rhine nymphs. The Central State Pawnshop of the Soviet Purchasing Commission had bought gold bullion in Berlin-50 million marks' worth of nice, shiny gold for the depleted Soviet treasury. Last week, a frantic message came from Moscow: the gold was phony! Investigation showed that Germans (among them many D.P.s) had operated an illegal smelter in Berlin, casting a base alloy with a thin gold coating into small "gold" bricks. This week, the Russian assayers who had permitted themselves to be fooled were in jail...
...friendly affair, that introduces likable people and captures a nice stage warmth; but it is also pretty thin and frail. Its conventionally retarded romance involves a professor's daughter (already engaged to a dull, career-minded architect) and a colonel who comes home from war to find the professor's family occupying his apartment. The amusingly meddlesome professor (played with gusto by Joseph Buloff) keeps the architect-whom he doesn't want for a son-in-law - hopelessly buried in blueprints so that the colonel can have a clear field with the girl...
...trouble with this kind of fancification of plot is that it blurs the issues-already sufficiently dramatic-which it is supposed to bring into more dramatic focus. When one unnecessary complication leads to another, they become progressively phonier. And for no good enough reason, these nice English people are represented here not merely as a confused couple, but also as squabbling M.P.s...