Word: safes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blame. When they clubbed students (and were themselves clubbed) in breaking up an anti-bases demonstration last fortnight, they unwittingly gave the agitators a big boost. Thereafter, calm discussion of the bases deal was impossible. Politicos, their eyes on next May's presidential election, began to play it safe. Last week, after 10,000 people paraded outside the National Assembly, a special committee brought out reservations designed to sidetrack the agreement...
From the First Damson . . . That was time enough for Tory leaders to recognize an unimaginative "safe" man. In 1922 Prime Minister Bonar Law put Stanley Baldwin in his Cabinet as Chancellor of the Exchequer. When Bonar Law resigned, there seemed to be no one in the Tory party to replace him except Viscount Curzon. Since Curzon was in the House of Lords (and therefore unable to face the growing Labor opposition in the House of Commons), the prime ministry went to Baldwin. "But," cried out Curzon, "[Baldwin] is a man ... of the utmost insignificance!" A Mayfair hostess asked...
...cooling system (perspiration). Moisture evaporating from the skin surrounds exposed parts of the body with an envelope of cooler air. With the hotbox at 236°, for instance, the air ¾ in. from the nose is 226°. The skin of the nose itself is at a safe 119.5°. Air drawn into the nostrils is cooled down so much that it does not damage the lungs. The general temperature of the body rises only a couple of degrees...
...there are other implications, of which the pet turtle bootlegging ring is only one example. Not only is the grocery store cat in constant danger from the racketeers, but even the squirrels in the Yard are not safe. The story of the captured rat of Hollis Hall, for which the world is not yet ready, is known by some and suspected by many, but the tale is too horrible to tell. It is enough to say that had the event been made open and legal by University Hall from the beginning, many lives and many hearts would have been spared...
Playwright Van Druten, who wrote the movie adaptation, may have tried hard to keep his tongue in his cheek, but it's a safe bet that he also ground it between his molars. Ronald Reagan, none too shrewdly cast, plays, of necessity, as if he were trying to tone down an off-color joke for a child of eight. Eleanor Parker's imitation of Margaret Sullavan, the Broadway original, is painfully scrupulous, from the hair on out. But it is hard to believe that Sergeant Reagan could long endure the retarded maiden she portrays, much less find...