Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your come-back to A. C. Whitaker's letter (TIME, Dec. 4) "Saliva is saliva, distilled or not-ED." is the most inept and unsnappy that I can recall. In fact I might say it was positively dumb. What Mr. Whitaker tried to tell you in a nice way was that the moisture that accumulates in musicians' wind instruments was not spit but actual water, and he was right...
Year ago in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, "spontaneous" demands for "Tunisia! Corsica! Djibouti!" all French protectorates, were vociferously raised. Last week Fascist Editor Virginio Gayda, lamented that the two outlets to Italy's mare nostrum, the Mediterranean, were "closed," suggested it would be nice for Italy if British-owned Gibraltar and British-protected Suez changed hands...
...first broadcast over NBC's Red network. John Gay's ribald lines had been studio-broken, but there were still some 18th-Century cracks which strained the broadcasting code ("Yes, indeed, the Sex is frail. But the first time a woman is frail, she should be somewhat nice methinks, for then or never is the time to make her Fortune.") U. S. radio listeners found its gangster Captain Macheath, his moll Polly Peacham, and its other ballad-singing jailbirds as fetching as a trim ankle, its famed tunes as neat as a whistle. Sample...
...Robert Stange '41, vice president. David Fleischman '41, secretary, Paul Olum '40, Avram S. Goldstein '40, Irwin Ross '40, William Rossmore '40, Arthur Kinoy '41, Max D. Gaebler '41, John A. Rolabird, Jr. '49, Robert G. Nassau '48, Walter K. Rosen '42, Sidney Jackson '48, and Andrew E. Nice...
...Gorty's biggest immediate problems was the struck Herex (now merged with the American). When Gorty sat down with the Newspaper Guild in Chicago last July, he let it be known that he was no Guild-hater. Guildsmen watched him chain-smoke 50? Corona Coronas, called him a "nice guy . . . reasonable . . . calm. "Last week they hoped that Gorty would be the man to settle the longest strike (one year old on Dec. 5) the Guild has ever...