Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sign up a new member, while Dave was making speeches at union meetings." But in 1925, when the Teamsters held their national convention in Seattle, it was Speechmaker Beck who caught the favor of International President Dan Tobin. Says another old Teamster: "Dan thought he could control a nice, clean-cut lad like Dave Beck." Result: Brewster was bypassed, and Beck got the promotion-promising job as I.B.T. organizer in Seattle...
...Godfrey's party was also using a lot of Ban, a new underarm deodorant (and Godfrey sponsor) : "We're the first white people who've ever been seen in this part of the country, and these natives and animals are really getting a load of how nice white people smell." Godfrey was also introducing the natives to such civilized amenities as Blue Bonnet Margarine (sponsor): "We are crazy about it here; we're making blueberry pancakes and frying the liver from the wart hog with it. Everything tastes better with bloop blurp margarine...
...three "retired" crooks are just as soon forgotten while the Incomparable Irmagard (John Britton) was given a nice costume but little else. The three female society editors (Messrs. Blanchard, Hamner, and Mattson) tried hard, but not very successfully...
...there been a disturbing note of harshness and coldness and violence and anger in your more recent works? A. I have followed the developing tension and anger and violence of the world and time that I live in. Q. Haven't you ever known any nice people in your life? A. I've never met one I couldn't love if I completely knew him and understood him. Concluded Williams: "Will you have a drink now?" A. Thank you, no. I never drink till after...
...there. The apple of President Shanks's eye is a new Commercial and Industrial Loan Department, set up to make funds available to small businessmen who ordinarily cannot get long-term loans through normal bank channels. "What we're looking for," says one Prudential executive, "is the nice little company making a nice little product in Bucyrus, Ohio." The Pru has found plenty of them. Among the loans: $200,000 to help reforest a Florida tree farm, $750,000 to a Nashville religious-book company, $54,000 to Kansas City's Papec Machine Co., makers of agricultural...