Word: nicest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Success", a play by A. A. Milne never before performed in America, is the Harvard Dramatic Club's winter offering, the very antipodes of the radical and highly colored "Fiesta" which made so much disturbance last year. No one need be afraid to take one's nicest relative to see it. Why "Success" has never been produced in America is not quite clear. It is no more British than "Mr. Pym", no more ironic than "The Truth About Blayds", no more fanciful than "The Romantic Age", all well beloved pieces. It is the story of a career...
...influence of Canada, New Zealand and Australia? all leery of Japanese immigrants?Great Britain is no longer the formal ally of Japan. But informal relations continue close and cordial between the first and third greatest naval Powers. Last week wise Mother England sent one of her very nicest sons?downy-lipped Henry, the Duke of Gloucester, third son of George V.?to bestow the Most Noble Order of the Garter on His Majesty the Emperor of Japan...
...Cambridge police force is to be submitted to such nervous strains as this, it is certainly time that something is done about the effect of criminal motion pictures on juveniles. If the screen influences little Cambridge schoolgirls to threaten the city's nicest policeman, it might cause impressionable little boys to set up a Cambridge underworld and "burn down" traffic officers in Harvard Square right before Harvard undergraduates...
Among the very nicest Christmas presents which cuddlesome Parisiennes received from virile Parisiens, last week, was a year's subscription to something new called Le Théatrophone...
Josephine Baker, interviewed at the Folies Bergère, said: "My husband sure is a count. I looked him up in Rome. He's got a great big family there with lots of coats of arms and everything. His father writes me the nicest letters, and his mother is right here in Paris stopping with us for a while...