Word: safe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Left to head the Labor Party in Parliament (unless a "safe seat" is found for Mr. Henderson at a by-election) were a shrewd oldster and a smart youngster...
Lloyd George Safe-Though every other Lloyd George Liberal but one was defeated, Father David, Daughter Megan and Son Major Gwilym Lloyd George won their seats. With his party thus reduced to four M. P.'s, the former Prime Minister looked toward Labor. Friends declared it "inevitable" that he should join the Labor Party's remnant, providing much needed brains. Since Mount Snowdon overlooks his constituency the spunky Welshman cried: "On the heights of Snowdonia the Liberal flag still flies...
Having provided his team with what seemed a safe margin, Gnome Booth retired to the sidelines, watched Dartmouth creep up. In the last half he returned to the lineup but by this time McCall and Morton were making a turncoat of the jinx that has bothered Dartmouth in previous Yale Bowl games. Morton had made a 94-yd. runback of a Yale kickoff. McCall caught a pass intended for Booth, scuttled 60 yd. for a touchdown. Three minutes before the game ended the score which had been Yale 33, Dartmouth 10 had become Yale 33, Dartmouth 30. Standing on Yale...
...with the CRIMSON's argument--details may be debated indefinitely--the eligibility rules are in question--Harvard is an institution for liberal education--West Point is a specialized military academy, etc.--regardless of conclusion one must salute independence of thought and fearless publication of convictions. How easy and safe to have written merely a dignified gloat over the victory. It is what ninety per cent of us would have done had we been the editors on that Monday after the game, and our rah-rah effusion would have wasted the time of the few hundred local subscribers who read...
...find out how certain policemen were able to bank two hundred thousand dollars or how various judges became enormously wealthy on ten thousand dollars a year salaries. The public may never know why Mayor Walker and an obscure accountant, now in "voluntary exile" in Mexico, should have rented a safe deposit box together, or why in 1930 they found it necessary to change it for one four times as large. But anyone can draw the logical inferences from such evidence...