Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Very Nice Job. Easy-mannered Bishop Selwyn was well-prepared for his job by serving as chaplain to the British Embassy Church in Paris from 1921-29. Says he reminiscently: "Paris is a wonderful place, and if you've got anything in you as a chaplain it's still a wonderful place. There you really come up against the forces of the devil...
Fulham's new bishop expects to have his hands full replacing aging chaplains and refurbishing war-blasted churches. But "I think it's a very nice job," said he last week. "After all-would you mind going to St. Moritz next winter...
...hundreds of athletes who have enjoyed the benefit of associating with Jaakko both on and off the track, like to think of him as the man who greeted them that first day with some unaffected remark like "All right now, you go 15 laps, nice, easy, medium speed today"; or who visited them at Stillman; or who was reported as shouting at one egotistical high school star circling the track on an opening day of practice, "That butterball...
Thanks for that nice article on Mr. Gunning, and his fight against unreadable English. . . . Modestly, the article does not mention the readability of your own style. Let me fill that gap. By my formula, TIME is more readable than almost any other printed source of news. For this, I herewith present you a "Readability Oscar"-and almost forgive you all the things you do to the English language...
Aside from "Lady in the Lake's" intrinsic worth, Robert Montgomery deserves a pat on the back for breaking away from Hollywood formula method. It is a pity he chose the most conventional of movie plots, and so could not make the novelty and the frequent nice touches rise above the sluggishness of the whole. The camera eye technique clearly has possibilities in movies that are naturally suited to subjectivity, but in the old missing-woman and private cop hash, it is at best incongruous...