Word: hideaway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thirty-odd people in our London office are looking forward to England's best Christmas since the blitz (it was in Christmas week 1940 that our office came nearest to being wrecked). Quite a few of them will probably spend it at the hideaway we rented for them out in Buckinghamshire and I hope rationing will let them celebrate with something a lot cheerier than dehydrated meat and boiled cabbage...
...does on his income. This is called the "victory tax." More truthfully, it is equality in democratic reverse. The Senate ignored entirely any surtax on luxury spending and the body as a whole once again has declined to levy taxes on State bonds. Large proportions of these incomes find hideaway refuge behind the skirts of the States to thumb their noses at the Federal Treasury...
After a night in Manhattan, Ambassador Grew, at 62 the ablest, most polished U.S. career diplomat in the field, went to Washington to report to his boss, Franklin Roosevelt, then closeted himself in a hideaway in the State Department and prepared a radio address to the U.S. people. Said...
...been laying evacuation plans for two years: it fears friendly ack-ack shells more than enemy bombs. Gold and silver, ivory, jades and jewelry have gone into bank vaults. A carefully chosen 2% of the museum's remaining 500,000 treasures have been trucked to the country hideaway. Gone are the Altman and most of the Morgan collections, the Van Eycks and other Flemish Primitives, Rubens' bulky Venus and Adonis, the museum's most famous El Greco, View of Toledo...
Like most museums, the New York Botanical Garden refuses to name its hideaway, lest passionate amateur collectors burgle its treasures. Its 50,000 type specimens include plants gathered by the Lewis & Clarke Expedition, by Explorer John C. Frémont (first Republican candidate for President), the first surveyors of the U.S.-Mexican border...