Word: niceness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baldwin's luncheon speech fully reciprocated the compliments of H. R. H., but the Prime Minister's words at a conference with newsgatherers were less formal and more like his comfortable, pipe-nursing self. As the correspondents entered he remarked: "It's a nice morning I've brought with...
...expect too much of Stanley Baldwin ? Britain's Prime Minister?in the way of dress, pose or convention... To the man on the street Stanley Baldwin will appear "a nice-looking fellow." He might also be described as "chock full of common sense." Both inferences are correct. Mr. Baldwin comes from the "better" class of Englishmen, but he can be just as charming keeping pigs down on his Worcestershire farm as in the presence of his Majesty the King as a representative of the British people's will...
...described the 60 coffins at the grey stone gates "under the splendor of flowers, red banners and black streamers." He let Novelist Lewis spill drops of irony on the "oozing" funeral orations: ". . . such measured, useful and reasonable words . . . uttered by bearded and clever men?all of it like a nice debating society...
...pretty good horse and had a "kind of nice gait." He was called The Senator, in honor of U. S. Senator James E. Watson of Indiana. Three terms served The Senator, one with Governor Ed Jackson of Indiana, one with David C. Stephenson, onetime Klan Dragon, one with Bert Schultze, Indiana apple-grower. It was during his service with Mr. Schultze that The Senator, greedily seizing a corncob, got that same corncob stuck fast in his throat. The Senator gasped, choked, struggled, died...
...ministers and church workers who gathered at Union Theological Seminary in Manhattan last week for their yearly conference received a nice category of youthful sinners and saints from Dr. Percy R. Hayward. Dr. Hayward is director of Young People's Work for the International Council of Religious Education. His categories of youth...