Word: nick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perfect safety." Then he went over to the dismantled office of his old friend and political enemy, the late Speaker Nicholas Longworth of Ohio. He took one look at the room where he may sit after Dec. 7. remarked that it did not look the same "with Nick gone," put on his dinner coat and a taffy-colored fedora hat, went to the White House. At this point neither he nor anyone save the President, his Cabinet and sub-Cabinet knew what was in the wind...
...neutrality. Katherine soon died, but with her last breath warned the sisters to be kind to Mary, or else?. Sinister old Phoebe transferred her hatred of the mother to the child. The other old maids, in powerless horror, thought they were about to see a tragedy; in time's nick Phoebe was checkmated...
...rickety automobile sped out of the Himalayas late one night last week. In the car was little baldheaded, featherweight Mahatma Gandhi. He had just two hours to cover 100 miles?over roads so perilous that night driving is usually prohibited?to Kalka. Arriving at Kalka in time's nick, he was cheered by a crowd of devotees as he boarded the frontier express for Bombay. En route, admirers gave him coins and homespun yarn. One woman auspiciously sprinkled his forehead with red powder. From Bombay he was to sail for London and the Round Table Conference...
...effort to vary, however slightly, the frayed formula for underworld pictures, Warner Brothers stumbled into the environment of illegal gambling, a field so fertile it is hard to see how it had hitherto been neglected. Nick is played by Edward G. Robinson, an actor with the face of a depraved cherub and a voice which makes everything he says seem violently profane. In Smart Money he does again several of the things he did in Little Caesar but not so many that the role is repetitious. His pal, who dies after Nick has hit him for suggesting that his last...
...most celebrated real ones: the late Nick Forzelli, son of a Syrian hop-seller, who once bet $327,000 on a horse to win, was reputed to have won and lost $1,000,000 three times in his career; Nick ("The Greek") Dandolas, craps, lowball and faro player, friend of Jack Dempsey...