Word: lock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theory Britain's Budget is one of her deepest State secrets. Only the Prime Minister and half a dozen of the highest Treasury officers are supposed to know its make-up before it is "opened" in the House of Commons. Until the moment of delivery it is kept locked in an ancient red morocco budget box. To be sure that the box will open at the right moment, a Government locksmith calls annually on the Chancellor of the Exchequer to oil the lock and fiddle with...
...pugilist named Melvin Smith. With this evidence to provide the scent, the Federal operatives relentlessly followed a tortuous trail to Manhattan, to California, to Florida, back to Manhattan, to the Bahamas. Last week, in Manhattan again, the agents came to a full stop. Eight thieves had been put under lock & key, $310,000 of the $590,000 recovered. No. 1 man, whom the G-Men called "one of the shrewdest security thieves in the country," was a shifty-eyed, weasel-faced Manhattan barber. For all their trouble, the gangsters had been unable to cash one note. How they had effected...
...sense of power above personal comfort. Since the War he never occupied a permanent apartment. Known and respected in every chancellery in Europe, he spent about 300 nights a year on trains. He never took a sleeping car, and intimates insisted that he never slept at all. He would lock himself in a compartment every night, dictate furiously to his four secretaries. He always stopped at third-rate hotels but insisted on having six rooms, so that one visitor might never know who his other visitors were. German newshawks, if they wanted an interview with Dr. Berliner, had to catch...
...independence necessary to any Harvard political organization has been carried off lock, stock, and barrel, by the tireless and determined radical group which first lulls the moderate members into dull complacency and sooner or later alienates them by its irresponsible activities. The letter leaves unanswered the significant question: what strength will be added to the Harvard Student Union by its half-hearted but involving connection with the national organization...
Mayor McNair declared a legal holiday. Businessmen in the Triangle were told to lock what doors they could reach, turn the keys over to Guardsmen. Bread sold at 30? per loaf, candles at four for $1. As night fell on the lightless city the flood was still rising. In the Roosevelt Hotel water lapped the lobby ceiling. Above stairs 575 guests and employees were marooned without heat, food or water. Two cinema theatres were flooded to their balconies. Above the flood line, the William Penn and Pittsburgher Hotels were jammed. Guests ate by candlelight, toiled up stairs and found their...