Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with great delight that I viewed myself in People (TIME, Oct. 7). However, just so my many acquaintances in show business won't think I've gone Hollywood, I believe it would have been nice to let them know bubble baths are not a weekly or daily occurrence with...
...Peshawar airdrome by 5,000 Moslem sympathizers, armed with spears and guns. His caravan of armored cars was stoned. Tribesmen insulted him by walking out on his speeches. Enraged, the Pandit called them "pitiful pensioners," an allusion to the fact that Britain pays them annual tribal subsidies to be nice. Gleefully, the League's newspaper Dawn editorialized that the Pandit should be made "honorary propaganda secretary of the Moslem League...
Naughty-Naught (book by John Van Antwerp; music & lyrics by Richard Lewine & Ted Fetter) is a hiss-the-villain burlesque of turn-of-the-century college life-a sort of Frank Merriwell at Yale served up with beer & pretzels-that had a nice off-Broadway run in 1937. But such things have gone on & on since 1937, they are all much alike, and each one, to get by, calls for stronger drinks and steadier drinking than the last...
...Cambridge-Yale-Harvard Track Meet. This was the last large work performed on the stadium, and increased its seating capacity to something close to the present 57,426. Nobody much remembers what happened in the English-American track and field events--except that it touched off a number of nice, old ladies serving tea in the afternoon--but the seats behind the north goal posts still remain, as you probably know...
...amiable little story involves four department-store salesgirls (Claire Trevor, Gail Russell, Jane Wyatt, Ann Dvorak) who long for a flashy stage setting to help them catch millionaire husbands. They hit on the scheme of pooling their room rents and leasing a $300-a-month Long Island house. A nice retired saleslady (Billie Burke) agrees to act as their mother. After a bit of high-pressure persuasion, the store's pinchpenny fop of a floorwalker (Adolphe Menjou) is dragged along as a window-dressing husband & father...