Word: niceness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...racing motorboat skimmed into the harbor of Nice. Pressmen rushed to greet it and hailed its principal passenger as an escaped turncoat Fascist who would now reveal the truth about Mussolini. ^ They were not disappointed. General Cesare Rossi, formerly head of the Fascist Press Bureau, stepped from the motorboat and told a thrilling tale of his "escape" from Rome by motor car in the dead of night to Genoa, where he was picked up by the motorboat, chartered on behalf of a Paris newspaper which is to print his revelations...
There was a ball one night in Washington whither Booth came late. Bessie Hale had dressed especially for him. She was watching, wondering. Meantime she waltzed to dreamy strains with a nice-looking young officer who was also, as many knew, an abject slave to her divinity. This was a tall lad, handsome, courtly. He had begged her hand time and again, receiving her refusals with cheery fortitude. Her parents preferred him to "the player." He used to send her stunning bouquets from the White House conservatory. He was President Lincoln's oldest son, Robert...
...plot, Dr. Gentian nurses a nice insanity to be King of the Floridas, while the passion of his daughter is to be a queen, preferably piratical, with the misbegotten brute who appeals to her inherited taste for coarse-grained erotics. When the hero, young Andrew Beard of New York, arrives on business for his rich father, he is snaffled between plan and counterplan of father and daughter, escaping not without scars on heart and body. In the distances are heard the splashing of tea-chests in Boston harbor, the rattle of musketry at Lexington...
Miss Bordoni then turned from her dislike of the movies to a discussion of popular winter resorts. "The Riviera and Nice may be wonderful resorts, but no place on earth can approach the delights of Palm Beach. The climate on the Riviera is bad; in the sun you throw aside all your clothes, while nearby in a shaded street you have to be carefully wrapped in furs. But Palm Beach; just give me five months a year in Palm Beach--. Some one said I talked as though I was trying to sell real estate, but though I buy, I never...
...Harvard 6 at 9 o'clock. At the same time, downstairs in Harvard 2, Professor Yeomans is lecturing on Government 19b on one of the many moot points put in the Constitution in order to provide problems for college courses, "What is Insterstate Commerce?" It is really a very nice subect, and timely, and I think I shall hear...