Word: safes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight the pagoda got to Mrs. Roosevelt safe & sound, but the Dragon Throne failed to show up. She pottered around a customs warehouse looking for it, finally notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation, cabled Director Loew-Beer. Presently she received a reply. The director, still in smuggling mood, had addressed the throne to a friend in Oakland, Calif., which he innocently assumed was a suburb of New York. Mrs. Roosevelt and Holland America Line officials looked some more, found the imperial seat, not yet forwarded to "suburban" Oakland, in a crate on a dock in Hoboken, N. J. Last...
...publicist, Eddie Roddan, and anotherkey man in the national Democratic machine: Treasurer Oliver Adams Quayle Jr. Everywhere he saw and handshook all manner of men & women-railroad workers, col- lege boys, lady Democrats, postal em-ployes-but especially Democratic county chairmen, the machine's roller bearings. He made safe, resounding speeches on salutary topics...
...outdone by Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, interrupted his direction of Libya's war preparations last week to pay a visit to neighboring Egypt. In interviews with the press and King Farouk the bearded Marshal professed friendly sentiments for Egypt, but just to be on the safe side Cairo planned a mock air-raid and black-out after he had gone...
...November the Museum of Modern Art opened its doors with an exhibition of Lillie Bliss's fine Cezannes and other first-rate French paintings borrowed by President Goodyear in Europe. Reporters discovered young, lean, black-haired Mr. Barr looking tired, a description which it has been safe to apply ever since. The way people piled in, it might have been Madison Square Garden...
...Friday game big "Tobo" Healey was coasting along on a safe 8 to 3 lead when the Ben Franklins fell upon his slants, chased him to cover, and finally finished up on Slim Curtiss. When all the smoke had cleared away, the heavy early inning barrage of Lupien and Co. had been nullified, making the score...