Word: niceness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theatre. It is not a play, although a play is at the base of it, but is rather a running series of comments on the shortcomings of the "speed and success' idea. That redoubtable pair, Kaufman and Connelly, have observed New York and the surrounding provinces with a nice discrimination; and they have seen a plenty. By all the evidence they wrote the show to please themselves...
Wrenched out of its original psychological pattern and set into a dainty mould that would presumably appeal to local tastes, the present version simply does not make sense. The poor girl is burdened with all sorts of Grundyisms. She is made just nice enough to be impossible...
Even the estimable Jane Cowl could not improve the situation. She seemed as prone as the adapter to regard the 'girl with politely scandalized eyes. "Of course she's a bad girl, but we've got to make her as nice as possible," seemed the general slogan. The result was a cautious counterfeit...
...enormous fortune of $18,000 to buy a tin mine. Since then, he has become richer and richer and still richer. He dislikes discomfort, and-as he has money with which to buy comfort-he keeps no fewer than 13 châteaux in various parts of the world-Nice, Biarritz, London, Paris, et cetera...
...ever awake early some morning, while it was yet dark, and hear the milkman rattle the bottles as he left the nice milk for your breakfast,-and as you snuggled in your warm little bed did you send out to the milkman a loving thought, a grateful thought, and ask God to keep him happy ar warm...