Word: nicest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some minor blooper and snapped: "Ordinarily you're a pretty smart cookie, but this is the god-damnedest foul-up I've ever seen." Said the officer later: "I felt like falling on my knees and blurting, 'Gee, general, that's the nicest thing you've ever said...
...many a resident of Communist East Germany, the nicest thing about his country, compared to the other satellites, is the ease with which he can get out of it. Last year a total of 252,870 East Germans fled westward, among them 2,553 People's Policemen. So far this year, the escape traffic has been even higher: 18,828 in 1956's first 20 days. These are not East Germany's aged, tired and homeless; most are hard-working farmers and factory employees fleeing excessive work norms, or young men who want to escape the draft...
...never the least bit brilliant, the play is never just silly or frantic either. What is perhaps nicest about it is its prevailingly playful tone. What is weakest is its dialogue, which is too seldom really bright and too often near-neighbor to the gag. Fortunately, a number of lines that were not born witty achieve a certain wit through the adroitness of the cast. Margaret Sullavan, Claude Dauphin, and Robert Preston as the tycoon, lend a certain airy charm, provide a certain steady carbonation...
...Chicago, Lizzie was something of a favorite. Those were heady days, with the big gamblers at the ringside. ("I remember Little Augie, he always wanted to hear Prisoner's Song - you know, 'If I had the wings of an angel . . .' Most of those gangsters were the nicest, quietest people.") In the Depression years, the blues were too real for comfort : Lizzie thought she was through. She worked as a housemaid, later as a barmaid. Even in World War II, she could not find a singing job. "Showfolks, gamblers and sportin' people have no loyalty...
Maryland-born Ed Darby will take with him many pleasant memories of the two men whom he had come to know well as Presidents of the U.S.: Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower. "Truman was one of the nicest men to be around," said Darby. And so was Ike. "Only once that I know of has Ike got sore at me," he recalled. "That was when he read a TIME personality piece in which I reported that on occasion his temper boiled over violently and he expressed himself in fine barracks-room language. Purple-faced, Ike denied my report...