Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...started chasing me across the rug a nice rug it was too. i retired underneath a deep leather couch but he was very unpleasant and crawled on his hands and knees mind you after me very boorish he was. he made a scene and a lot of other men stood around and gawped. i was embarrassed...
...Sunday morning the religious service started with a Swiss hymn. Howard stepped things up with a nice little talk, full of comforting variations on themes now becoming familiar to me. Then the confessions were resumed where they had broken off the day before...
Well-disciplined and thoroughly cowed, Vag turned into the eave at 15 Holyoke Street, holding the paper in his left hand, leaving the right free for saluting. Painstakingly, he followed signs to a nice lady and for her read the color-blind numbers, but declined when she asked him to do it again. Upstairs there was some difficulty in the laboratory; Vag bridled a little at the fourth sign in a row saying "Have you forgotten to put your came on the bottle-cap?" and he was annoyed when he reached the doctor's office. The questions started--exactly...
Fortunately, there are some nice dances, pleasant tunes, and funny ditties to get it on the wing again. The best of the tunes...
...hand him self, he was long enough (33 months) at Eighth Air Force and Strategic Air Forces headquarters to learn something of the woes of staff and command. His story is a little stagey here & there (the entrances & exits are particularly pat), but it is managed throughout with a nice mixture of sympathy and fury, and an expert's knowledge of high-echelon follies and low-echelon speech...