Word: safe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Island. There we carried the Commandant of the Second Naval District, Captain Bryan (?), out to the Texas which was surprisingly close to the shore. For the next few days, armed with our "formidable" Three-Pounder, we patrolled the waters-or, as an Army friend put it, we "kept ourselves safe for democracy...
...Hughes compiled figures, leading citizens investigated for themselves. Besides the black eye which dramas like Chicago and The Racket were giving their city, citizens had become genuinely alarmed by hordes of crooks and thugs who, finding the alcohol and dope industries too highly organized to be profitable or even safe in Chicago, had turned to such bold badness as the "union racket"- a simple strongarm game, played with lead pipes and sawed-off shotguns, where the crooks formed "labor unions" of junk men, fish dealers, tailors, cobblers or other defenseless professionals, and shot or clubbed any who refused to join...
While there are no similar statistics from other states with which to compare these of Massachusetts, it is safe to assume that investigation would show that the number of students barred from their chosen institution in other states is smaller. Naturally there is nothing alarming about the situation. The small number of men and women refused admittance makes it probable that all the applicants could and did find second or third choices which proved satisfactory. There is certainly no cause for assuming that limitations on numbers is keeping properly qualified persons from the realms of higher learning. This...
...there is something to be said for the common, or garden variety, of politeness. It used to be said that a woman could travel from one end of this country to the other without meeting with discourtesy or insult--now it appears, even Mr. Auburn Street is not wholly safe. No one perhaps wants to go back to the days of "that's fighting talk" and "When you say that, smile", but there are certain obligations which the male still, if one be at all old fashioned, owes the gentler...
...best friend and severest critic. Obviously she is a close friend of Montgomery Higginson, the leading figure of that distinguished coterie of literati which counts among its number such important names a Essenz von Bierschaum, Jan Rotterdam, and Major Polonius Pringle. In such company as this, Lowella should be safe even at the Lamb's Club...