Word: safe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anti-Saloon League has collected more than $70,000,000 to make bootlegging and moonshining one of the big, safe, profitable institutions. . . . The fanatical fervor of the Anti-Saloon League for the bone-dry law that has popularized drinking and upset our nation-old standard of respect for law, is due to the financial rewards they pay themselves out of the money they get for falsely representing that Prohibition is an unqualified success...
...printer, in greatest confidence. Back it came in long strips of type. He showed it first to William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan of New York. He showed it to a few others. And again and again he read it all through to himself, in his Palo Alto study. Safe to say, that, years hence, he will associate that speech far more closely with that room than with the stadium in which it was for the last time voiced...
...Queen Victoria Eugenie and their second son, the Infante Don Jaime. These royal persons, having read the final newspaper accounts of asphyxiation aboard the F14, proceeded to quiet their nerves by entering the Spanish super-submarine 51, which promptly dived beneath Atlantic billows for a short, serene voyage, a safe return...
...diamonds, diving safe crackers were obliged to dynamite the strong room of the Elizabethville...
...been drummed up and Their Majesties inspected with interest the cleanest, tamest, least savage. On their way home to Belgium, King Albert and Queen Elizabeth will pass a bleak spot in the English channel where, in September 1917, a German submarine torpedoed the Belgian steamer Elizabethville in the safe of which was locked the entire diamond output of the Congo for 1917, valued at $10,000,000. The Government of His Belgian Majesty has just employed an Italian deep sea diving firm which proposes to raise the safe by means of a potent submarine magnet...