Word: safe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pugilist who turns up drunk for the bout on which his manager (James Gleason) has bet their last nickel. Beaten, his ruin is completed when his mistress. Puff (Wynne Gibson), has her night club wrecked by gangsters, when his manager gets shot while opening a fight club's safe. While Puff and Slag are squabbling over their misfortunes they receive a telegram which makes Puff suspect that the manager has hidden some of Slag's earnings...
...ship neared Europe a wireless message came telling him to proceed to Bremen. There an engineer from the Artiglio II gave him minute descriptions of two safes to be opened by divers 400 ft. below the surface. A third had been opened with an acetylene torch, damaging the contents. Courtney gave the engineer a "template" (outline pattern) of what the lock probably was like, where it should be drilled. His templates opened one safe, failed on the other until he had flown to Calais and drawn another. His employers told him to come back in August when there would...
Willis Anderson Sutton, Atlanta superintendent of schools: "It is safe to say that the teachers of the country have fed 2,000,000 school children, an average of two apiece, in the school year just closed...
...first time the limousines wer kept moving briskly, the ladies alighted with record speed, did their waiting inside Buckingham Palace, safe from the jokes and jibes of London's unemployed...
...Press spent $600,000, employed 726 journalists to write 5.000,000 words about the Republican National Convention at Chicago last week (see p. 10). For the first time at a National Convention, photographers with their safe new flashlamps were permitted to ply their trade up & down the aisles. The Associated Press cannily hired ambulances to rush its pictures from the Stadium. For all this enterprise and expenditure, there was an obvious dearth of hot news, but many a famed correspondent had a good time writing about and talking to famed colleagues, also had fun being looked at. For nowadays when...