Word: nicest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...magic wishing necklace that would enable the youngest camel to wish his mother to have her own little oasis out in the desert. By choosing the necklace the sensible youngest camel broke all precedents, since others had always chosen the bag of ashes because "it was the politest and nicest thing...
...published Disputed Passage (Houghton Mifflin, $2.50). As a personality pamphlet, it is a wow. As a novel, it is nothing much-no better nor worse than other Douglas books. Professor Tubby Forrester is so sour on life that it takes 432 pages for John Wesley Beaven, one of the nicest, cleanest, bravest medical students ever to flay a corpse, to convince the Professor that doctors must be gentle as well as skillful. John Wesley's own life is leavened by what Author Douglas calls his "process of orientation" to Lan Ying ("orchid"), an American girl brought...
...more than thirty years, but his proudest record is that of having umpired 12 Harvard-Yale games in a row. Practically all his superlatives are connected with this ivy tradition. He ranks halfback Eddle Mahan as his greatest of greats but his real favorite, the "most gentlemanly" and "nicest fellow ever," is none other than quarterback Barry Wood...
...novel: "Isn't pioneering always a running away from something? . . . It's more difficult to make your way among millions of your equals and betters than to shoot a few savages and animals and suffer some little inconveniences. The wild animals are less predatory too than the nicest people. Safer, for a person like...
...such was first officially presented to the State Department by Germany's Ambassador Hans Dieckhoff day after the Hitler coup. Three days later, Austria's popular Minister Edgar Prochnik called to announce that the functions of his legation-long the scene of some of Washington's nicest parties-had indeed been taken over lock, stock & barrel by the German Embassy...