Word: safes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Merle Oberon, as daughter of the diplomat sent to pacify Ireland, tries to keep her love with Brian Aherne safe from war though he is the leader of the rebellion. The tragedy is intensified in that the very strength of their love is the cause of his shooting. The radicals in the rebelling forces believe that Aherne signs a peace treaty because of love, and they mark him for a traitor's death. Through the whole movie runs the note of inevitable tragedy ominous events follow each other rapidly--, and the sympathy of the audience is high pitched...
...greater wrong has been perpetrated against a nation, a government voted for and established by a large majority of the people of Spain. Are we reverting back to times when no country or people are safe from the ambitious covetousness of cruel kings or powerful armies...
When his fishing launch failed to reach Key West on schedule, two Coast Guard planes flew off in search of Sir Charles Ross, inventor of the Ross rifle, no kin to the Charley Ross kidnapped from Germantown, Pa. in 1874 and still missing. Same day Sir Charles turned up safe...
...Millis two years ago pointed out what looked to four U. S. Senators-Nye, Clark, Vandenberg and Bone-and to many a plain citizen, like a plain road to peace. If it were true that the U. S. had fought in the World War not to make the world safe for democracy but to save the frog-skins of its merchants and moneylenders, then the gloriously sure and simple way for it to stay out of the next one was to keep its trade and money at home when the fighting began. Steamed up by the Millis book and FORTUNE...
...more lyric vein, Mr. Babson concludes that the only safe hedges are things like health, culture, children, friendship, birds, flowers, the sea and the sky. And Mr. Babson advises against entering any period of inflation or revolution without a clear conscience. "Jesus may not have been much of a theologian," admits this moderator of the Congregationalist Church. "He, however, was a real economist...