Word: safes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administration, which wanted a two-year extension and stricter controls, glumly accepted the compromises as the best it could get. But what was safe enough for the rest of the country was not safe enough for the Congressmen themselves. Taking no chances, the House passed a rent-control bill for the District of Columbia (where about half the members of Congress are tenants), freezing rent ceilings for the next 15 months, retaining controls on hotel apartments, and allowing no second guessing by local boards...
...penlashing to the Birmingham Photographic Society for exhibiting the photograph Following the Master (see cut), "despite protests from all over Britain." The Mail charged that "1) it offends the religious susceptibilities of Christian people . . .; 2) the way the saw is being operated conflicts with all the modern rules of safe carpentry; 3) there were no circular saws in New Testament days...
...glowing fan letter to the New York Times, Miss Farrar took approving note of "such physical attributes as allow this singer to surmount. . . the terrific vocal demands . . ." She added pointedly: "No voice comes to full-bodied glory on a Hollywood diet, nor are lean thighs the safe caryatids upon which to rear the edifice of enduring and beautiful singing...
...have any pictures taken of you in a bathing suit. One slipped by at Bermuda [in 1946] and it's been a disgrace to the family ever since." Charlie Ross wasn't trying to censor anybody, the President said; it was just "a measure to make it safe for me to come home...
...Forks. A strange unreality lies over the world visualized in these two books. Much of the Overland Trail had been well traveled long before these emigrants started, yet they still had the hardships of pioneers. The Indians were like stage Indians, no longer menacing, but certainly not safe. At the forks in the road there were travelers with word of how much better some other route was or could be, and at the river crossings there always seemed to be someone to overcharge them for ferrying each wagon and each mule...