Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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King Farouk of Egypt sent the Cadillac Motor Co. an order for 25 limousines, pointing out that he is a style-setter in the Middle East and that it would be nice all around if he got delivery right away. Unfortunately Imperials are not yet in production, with or without leather seats, gold fixtures and red paint...
...warmth of the Japanese reception was too much for four-year-old Mickey Driver. He stiffened with fright when one of the kimonoed women picked him up, recovered when his father, Commander Orvil Driver, told him to "Shake hands with the nice Japanese lady...
Benito Mussolini was the posthumous victim of some inside dopery. Myriam Petacci, sister of his last mistress, Clara, who was killed with him, declared that Benny was really rather a tinhorn. "He was very nice to her and sent her lots of love notes and flowers," she said, "but Clara got very little money from him, and the jewels were paste...
...story, based on Roger Vercel's Goncourt Prize novel, Remorques (published in the U.S. as Salvage-TIME, Jan. n, 1937), is lacking in what the U.S. trade likes to call "big story values." Nothing much happens. Tugboat Captain Gabin, married for ten years to a nice, affectionate little blonde, suddenly finds that he's mad about Mile. Morgan. Except for a few convincing details, that's practically the whole plot...
...nice if it stays way all summer," a cabbie was saying to his buddie, who nodded in agreement. They both knew it wouldn't and so did Vag. He knew it would be hot, damned hot, and he thought of those stifling summer afternoons when the streets would be deserted and quite and the asphalt would be wet with the curved lines of tire treads...