Word: safes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...safe bet that whenever TIME pans a (Continued on p. 69) movie that movie is usually a darn good show. I can't conceive of anyone not liking Showboat and in my opinion Laura LaPlante did better work in that play than she has ever done before. Also she does not meet the description with which TIME credited her. That is the only picture I can think of now which got panned but I know there have been others...
Wrote Mrs. Willebrandt: "It was charged that Heber Nations' part in the conspiracy was to keep the brewery advised, through his brother Gus, then chief prohibition officer in St. Louis, when it would be safe to run out the forbidden brew...
...TIME was concerned this great National organization just didn't exist, notwithstanding the fact that the Associated Press, Chicago Tribune and other papers had alert reporters on hand during the entire week. And yet, it is safe to estimate that that gathering, including many of the nation's most brilliant womanhood, represented a greater percentage of TIME readers than any similar group of men. Was TIME asleep during the week of July...
...handicap in the enforcement of Prohibition . . . most responsible for its failures." Observed Mrs. Willebrandt: "Politics and liquor are as inseparable a combination as beer and pretzels." Though she did not name the late great Boies Penrose, she cited the fact that $250,000 in cash was found in a safe deposit box on his death and insinuated that this was "dirty money" for the political manipulation of Prohibition enforcement in Pennsylvania. She recalled appeals made by politicians for such prominent convicted 'leggers as George Remus (Cincinnati) and the La Montagne brothers (Manhattan). Declared Mrs. Willebrandt: "It takes backbone...
...solemn group of sportsmen spent last week sitting in pairs at tables in Cedar Point, Ohio, propelling cylindrical pellets about checkered rectangles, making them sally, mingle, jump one another, then inching them ignominiously back to safe corners. Officials fumed impotently. For 20 hrs. four of the most potent contenders in the National Checker Championship piddled thus, played 32 drawn games. Came official threats to limit to 20 the number of games two players could draw without penalty. In the finals, after six draws, Asa Long of Toledo, Ohio, conquered 16-time drawer Louis C. Ginsberg of Brooklyn...