Word: safes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dying is out of the question. The remote risk of it is just enough to make a flight by Coolidge, with Lindbergh, a magnificently "sporting" thing for him to do in a country which prides itself on its sportsmanship. There's too much play-safe policy among its public figures. Roosevelt would fly with Lindbergh like a shot-he would have the day Lindbergh got home from Paris! Better late than never...
From the estimated $252,000,000 surplus Secretary Mellon last autumn subtracted a $25,000,000 reserve fund, and told Congress that a $225,000,000 tax cut would be safe if Congress would keep closely to the Treasury's budget figures. Up to last week Congress had already gone $25,000,000 beyond the budget figures, and still had to make a flood-control outlay of perhaps $40,000,000. From these facts Treasury experts predicted that a tax cut surely no greater than $225,000,000, perhaps of only $220,000,000, perhaps of no more than...
...trousers and the jacket of his green pajamas. He told how the train was finally stopped, when the sleeping car attendant managed to climb, catlike, over the swaying luggage van and into the cab of an engineer who knew his trade too well to look behind. Other passengers, all safe, were chiefly irate because their luggage had been destroyed when the two flaming coaches, which could not be extinguished, were uncoupled and allowed to burn to the rails...
Great phrases do not sprout with frequency or ease from kindly, commonsense Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Last week he said: "We must make Democracy safe for the World...
...Columbia Phonograph Company offered a reward. As sponsor of the Schubert Centennial it wants returned Schubert's Gastein Symphony, written by him during a visit to Gastein, Austria, in 1826, given for safe-keeping that same year to the Society of the Friends of Music of Vienna and lost. The reward...