Word: risked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jones is a public official. Certain interests want a bill passed. There is no crude attempt to hand Jones money. Jones votes right, and later is given a part in some good business deal where he can make an excellent profit with no risk of loss...
...back into the ocean in a smother of foam. Quickly then another catapulted through the waves, floated off casually. Far below the surface a chain with links two and a half inches thick and tested to a strain of 110 tons had parted. The work of months at the risk of many lives, all realized, had been swept away in a single moment. The wind blew fresher, the seas rolled up raging...
...Again (Richard Dix, Chester Conklin). Any actor with Chester Conklin at his elbow runs grave risk. Mr. Conklin is so superbly comic that the witnesses are likely to be annoyed at interruptions by the usual movie romance. Such is the case with this display. Richard Dix, inevitably capable and decorative, tries to project a threadbare mythical kingdom story in opposition to Mr. Conklin's staggering comedy. Probably for the first time in history the custard pie is the power behind the throne...
...Washington correspondent of the Manhattan pinko-political weekly, the New Republic, last week risked his reputation with the categorical assertion: "I know of no really important party man who is at heart for Mr. Coolidge for another term"-yet his risk was not too great, for the assertion is not wide of the mark. One of the phenomena of the Coolidge regime is that its leader has won little affection from either politicians or newspapermen in Washington, yet receives what is known as a "good press" and no little political support. The explanation seems to be that, although the President...
...however, not risk too much of the fortunes of France on our illusions. Let us avoid at all costs the mortal error of making any premature reduction of the other forces of our national defense...