Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real help-and always too late . . . Many of you here [at Oklahoma City] today are farmers. You have had particular reason to feel the neglect and the indifference of a big-business administration. For three years the Republican leaders watched farm prices fall with philosophical calm. This is the nice, polite way of saying they did nothing-until election year came around...
...circus only made matters worse by praying for a dry track on which to run its trick horse. The Lord let it rain and the horse won anyway, but as musical theater the whole carnival romp was a washout. Recording Artist Kay Starr's anvil voice (with a nice built-in sob) led a lusty counterpoint melody between town and clown. But Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong as bandmaster and oldtime Circus Comic Buster Keaton were so much wasted tanbark. The "original" Jo Swerling-Hal Stanley music and lyrics had a too-familiar ring. ("If fate should hurt...
Another Yale law professor, Frederick Rodell, agreed with Schneider and Sears, referring to the proposed appointment as "a nice gesture, but rather silly; I think Judge Hand would agree." Rodell felt that only a private agreement between Hand and the President would enable the retired judge to be appointed on a temporary basis. He also believed that Hand would not accept the appointment...
...been told Oliphant was a member of a tax shakedown gang. Former New York Alcohol Tax Unit Supervisor James B. E. Olson popped up on the payroll of tax-troubled companies. Massachusetts Collector Denis Delaney was convicted of bribery, served nine months. St. Louis Collector James Finnegan* had a nice way of obtaining legal retainers from firms doing business with the Government, later went to jail for 18 months. Former Assistant BIR Commissioner Daniel Bolich was convicted of conspiracy to fix a tax case. Ernest M. Schino, a deputy collector in California, was convicted (two years) of tax fraud conspiracy...
...dark blue, green and white apartment on the Left Bank, in place of the bourgeois restrictions of her sedate family home. On warm days when Françoise is not dashing about in her Studebaker, Buick, Jaguar (bought with her first royalty check) or Gordini racer ("It is nice to touch it with your hand"), she can cool off with the gift of an American admirer: an electric hand fan decorated with diamonds and mink...