Word: prudently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will cut off Merchant Amirhanian's children, created a trust fund which a group of Anglo-Indian lawyers were instructed to build up during the next 50 years. This year the half-century is up and prudent investments (chiefly in Indian real estate) have swelled Miser Amirhanian's fortune to the colossal total of $120,000,000. Diligent, the trustees called at Alexandria, Egypt upon white-haired, tremulous Marianne Djanikian, 80, told her that as the granddaughter of Miser Amirhanian she can now claim his fortune under the terms of the will...
Punctured Napoleon? Even German Reds are prudent. Last month, in the first presidential election (won by nobody since nobody obtained an absolute majority), 4,982,939 Communists turned out and voted for their "Red Napoleon," leather-lunged Comrade Ernst Thalmann (TIME, March 21). Last week, since everyone knew that Comrade Thalmann had not the ghost of a chance, more than a million German Reds prudently wasted no time in voting, left their Red Napoleon punctured flat and with only 3,706,388 ballots...
From Tokyo Count Nobuaki Makino, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, went to Okitsu to visit Prince Kimmochi Saionji, 92, last of the Genro (elder statesmen). It was the second time the wise old oracle had been consulted this month. Because Count Makino is prudent, peaceable, potent, observers deduced that something good, important would come from the visit. But Count Makino said nothing, reminded newshawks that he never gives interviews on trains...
...less hazardous to give food to the hungry striking coal miners of Kentucky's Bell County if you do not make a speech about it. It is even more prudent, if you live in New York City and are a writer with a flair for succoring the oppressed, not to try either. One who knows this now is Waldo Frank, 42, globe-trotting lecturer, critic (Our America), novelist (City Block), journalist (for the New Republic and New Masses...
With Miss Williams as she entered the jail were her mother, father and brother Dent, 25. A prudent sheriff searched Dent Williams for weapons and was not surprised to find a revolver. The family was then led into a room where a Negro named Willie Peterson, suspected of the crime, was to be re-identified by Miss Williams. Willie Peterson had been arrested fortnight before when, walking in Birmingham with her brother Dent, Nell Williams had suddenly pointed and screamed, "That's him! That's him!" Brother Dent had covered the Negro with a gun until police came...