Word: shielded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prostitute. "No Klansman in a boob legislature, cringing before a Kleagle or a Wizard, was more subservient to the crack of the whip than was Al Smith-ambitious and effective and smart as chain lightning-in the Legislature when it came to a vote to protect the saloon, to shield the tout and to help the scarlet woman of Babylon, whose tolls in those years always clinked regularly in the Tammany till. . . . "I am throwing no mud at Governor Smith. He is honest, he is brave, he is intelligent. I don't question his motives. To get where...
...Hall. At the former, a speaker of the Boston Advertising Club calmed the city in general by allusions to the easy life among laundrymen and street cleaners on that side of the Charles. But for City Hall the darts were obviously meant and there they rattled impotently off the shield of Superintendent Crowley's indignation. "Our officers are the finest looking bunch of men in the State" he cried. "One shave a day is enough for them; and as for powdering their noses, laugh. There shall be no such feminism among my stalwarts...
...yachts of rich friends when he goes a-faring. Last week a flotilla of four vessels bore him company along the Florida edge of the broad Atlantic from Miami southward to the Florida keys. There, while his hosts sipped ices under the southern sun, Mr. Beebe dropped, under the shield of a glass-windowed helmet, to see what he could see swimming at the bottom of the shallow...
...other water is an enormous shallow bay, spread like a thin shield across the North of Canada. Into this grey harbor also Hudson sailed; and here, after spending a winter on its frozen shore, he stayed to watch his ship, manned by a mutiny, putting back for England, leaving him and two companions to drown or freeze or starve. It is idle and unpleasant to imagine how the tireless captain accomplished death; it is possible, though, to imagine him as he must have looked, sitting in a small boat, listening to the slap of water on its gunwale, watching...
...could wheedle from the late eccentric Baron Michelham in the interest of the estranged Baroness, Aimee Geraldine, nee Bradshaw. Today Captain Cohn, a fat, unctuous personage with a great mane of blond hair, is to be seen, sleekly appareled and carrying a lady's parasol to shield his eyes, at every major race meeting in Europe. Frequently, very frequently, his horses win. His Sir Galahad distanced Epinard in a match race for private stakes...