Word: safe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Montreal, two Cuban bodyguards rushed him down the gangplank into a waiting automobile. Canadian police formed around him, escorted him at breakneck speed to the Mount Royal Hotel. Safe in the suite which General Italo Balbo occupied two months ago, he told newshawks : "We have with us barely sufficient pocket money to meet our traveling expenses. All my property, real and otherwise, is in Cuba and I have no money in any bank outside of Cuba...
...Laboring mothers should not plead with their doctors for a completely painless delivery. As yet there is no perfectly safe way to effect that. Chloroform, ether, nitrous oxide (laughing gas) can be used effectively for an hour or two, seldom longer. Pain is caused by uterine contractions to expel the baby. Anesthetics and narcotics inhibit those contractions, also affect the baby's respiration. ''Twilight sleep," which made mothers forget their sufferings by means of doses of morphine and scopolamine, is now generally discredited...
...applied the same pragmatic principles to the arts that he had found effective in business: he had no use for failures, however interesting. Young John O'Shaughnessy. general handyman of the School, had enough motherwit and social presence to get along with Mr. Ganson and to steer a safe course among the shoals of Dorchester's provincial-artistic society. When Musician Arenkoff was appointed conductor of the Phil harmonic Orchestra, John was told off to help him get settled. This was a pleasant enough job, and when Arenkoffs wife Nina arrived, John adored her at sight. Nina...
...Berlin last week Premier Göring had so stamped his dominance upon the capital that he felt safe in ordering disbanded on Aug. 15 the "auxiliary Prussian police" enrolled from Nazi Storm Troops six months ago and hotly protested in Geneva by France and her allies as "disguised soldiers violating the Treaty of Versailles." How many such troops or police there may have been is Premier Göring's secret. He said 30,000 last week, but protest estimates have always been at least...
Since no public building seemed a safe place to inaugurate Provisional President de Cespedes he gave an inaugural garden party at 9:30 a. m. on the wide terrace of his handsome house. Flashing-eyed Cuban ladies embraced each other and their escorts with patriotic fervor as eight judges of the Cuban Supreme Court arrived majestically in their black robes. No foreign envoy, not even U. S. Ambassador Welles, was present. Amid sizzling heat Dr. Cespedes. perspiring in formal morning clothes, took this brief oath: "I swear faithfully to fulfill the duties of President of the Republic and enforce...