Word: safes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With Edward of Wales safe home from Africa and "present in the Kingdom," as head of the Crown Council, the Empire waited, last week, for Death to strike George V or pass him by. Whatever the event there would be no slightest break in that splendrous super-human continuity which endures, not the King but the Crown...
...State may have signified politically, it gave Governor Fuller, long the Republican Party's second prize publicity artist, a chance to step out to a sizeable lead over his once superior opponent, the vociferous Mr. Goodwin. Working on the sufficient assumption that an officer soon to be emeritus is safe from slings and arrows, the Governor has been chuckling pretty constantly and very, very sarcastically since November sixth. The appropriately-named Crows' dinner evoked sardonic notes from him, weak epigrams from Mayor Nichols, and much nudging among the other side...
King of Arms. The Sovereign could now dismiss all anxiety for the safe administration of the Realm. But his wise preparation for even Death heightened, stirred and put on their mettle the Earl Marshals of Arms, the two Kings of Arms, the six Heralds and the four Pursuivants. Should Death come it would be the awesome duty of these 13 personages to make oral proclamation, some three days after the event*, from the Friary Court balcony of St. James's Palace; and thereafter and furthermore to proclaim the accession of the new Sovereign, proclaim it again at Charing Cross...
...Experimental Theatre of Boston faces the problem of the theatre in-time everywhere in the United States. It must steer a safe course between the clashing rocks of the stock farce and melodrama and the self-conscious radicalism that leaves its seats all empty. When Winthrop Ames took Arthur Schwitzler's "Anatol" over the censorship hurdles same years ago, he beat the Foley of that day by enough so that you needn't go to settle that question. One regrets that the Experimental Theatre throws away a chance to make an honest experiment. Go, if you like...
Sport planes on the other hand are cheap, safe and handy, and so are popular. They sell well and have rapidly become a main support of the aviation industry. The limit of their sale (their saturation point...