Word: nicest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weather is bad." Why did he write Sanctuary? 'I wanted a horse, and I heard that people were making money by writing novels." After the formal conference, the newsmen hung around for more Faulknerisms and free-flowing heat-chasers. Any comment on Henry James? "One of the nicest old ladies I ever knew." How much had Gertrude Stein influenced his writing? "Very little," drawled Bill Faulkner affably. "I didn't meet her until I was 50.* Next day, some 175 diplomats, newsmen and Japanese educators waited for the author to appear at Tokyo's Foreign Correspondents Club...
...short, the nicest thing about this picture is its piety-and that is merely hypocritical...
Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht, whose Front Page is still circulating, also engineered this movie, and its hectic, rarely subtle humor is their trademark. Except for the absence of a heroine, the nicest thing about Gunga Din is the movie's willingness to take itself with a block of salt. Grant, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Victor McLaglen form a sort of Her Majesty's Three Musketeers in India. After a certain amount of intrigue and a little less suspense Din helps them to conquer a mysterious native tribe. The plot is exactly the same as it was 15 years...
Portable Gods. Poor Gadein is the almost-hero of A Time to Laugh, a fine first novel by Briton Laurence Thompson. The nicest thing that can be said about A Time to Laugh is that it is a strong reminder of Joyce Gary's Mister Johnson, just about the finest novel about Africa ever written. Author Thompson is no Gary yet, but his hero, like Mr. Johnson, is that charming innocent, the unspoiled primitive man thrust into and beaten up by a world he never made. Of the two, Johnson had it better; he merely became a clerk...
Said a Seattle housewife last week: "We spend at least 50% of our waking hours in the kitchen. It would be silly not to make it one of the nicest rooms in the house...