Word: safe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after by legislation decree the length of a feature itself." Motion Picture Herald's Martin Quigley, Johnny-one-note of the trade press, was plaintively sarcastic: "This industry is going to be fixed up fine," wrote he, "when all the experts get through -making it safe for babies, supplying adult education on the screen and carrying the messages of the assorted propagandists. After all those functions are served the subject of entertainment can be considered." In Chicago independent theatres had a different answer. They promptly abandoned double bills, began showing triple features...
Best boxing performance was turned in by Albert Damon of Leverett in the 165 pound bout, as he blocked everything Howard Wood, who had a considerable advantage in reach, could throw at him. Although he kept his right in check the Rabbitt piled up a safe lead with repeated left jabs, stalling off with superior footwork Wood's sporadic attempts to get behind his guard...
...There, safe and unbombed in a tapestry-hung medieval chamber, the Deputies met for three hours, with several members of the British, French, Yugoslav, Norwegian and Swedish parliaments looking on as guests. No attempt was made to legislate. When the Premier, generally regarded as a front man for Socialist Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto, mentioned Prieto's name and coupled it with the People's Army (see p. 15}, he drew the one loud cheer...
Spluttered Dr. Hunsicker: "Who is Dr. Emerson? . . . Unfounded charges. . . . Our drinking water is absolutely safe. At times it doesn't taste good. But there is no danger in drinking...
Then came the early teens. "Humming with pseudo-sophisticated nonchalance, we enjoyed our first shave and reminisced on that glorious afternoon when we'd won the game single handed, saved the day, and made the world safe for Democracy. A reaction was only natural for so precocious a youth, and it came in a tendency toward manfully swapping glances with Theda Bara or in clinging to our ideals and displaying a gentle-manly disdain for the mating call of the cow-Balinese in "Goona-Goona." But we soon hit the nadir; we liked our lady friends to wear their skirts...