Word: snug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Belgrade is a natural fortress, a high place from which to rule, a snug capital round which the mighty Danube bends. Last week he who rules at Belgrade was wrestling with the forces tending to disrupt his realm. He, Alexander I, is a king in name but a little emperor in fact. His people are of a myriad races and sects, including the Mohammedan. Last week His Majesty faced an especially disheartening cabinet crisis...
...college chums from Rutgers and Harvard Law would make merry with him. He would tower in Manhattan among financiers, and in Washington above those who were his associates when he was a Treasury "career man." Best of all, wise Agent Gilbert had contrived that he should be snug aboard the Leviathan, last week, when the Reparations Bureau released at Berlin his 237-page printed report on the third reparations annuity year (Sept. 1, 1926, to Aug. 31, 1927). Theses. As usual, the Agent General put forward in his report several explicit theses. This year they are that...
Because most Britons dearly love such quaint phenomena of Nature as eclipses, tens of thousands of excursionists aped the expected royal pilgrimage. At the last moment threatening weather caused Queen Mary to remain snug at Buckingham Palace. The King, not so easily daunted, made a short excursion from London out to Newmarket. There, 170 miles fom Giggleswick, His Majesty rode out upon his horse at dawn and ruefully observed only a thin crescent of light in a cloudy sky at the moment of eclipse...
Swim. Muscular women in snug suits swam lustily at the Women's National A. A. U. indoor championships in Buffalo last week. Three of them broke four world's records: Agnes Geraghty went through 220 yards of water in 3 min. 20 sec.; Adelaide Lambert swam 300 yards in 4 min., 34.4 sec.; Martha Norelius swam 400 yards in 5 min., 14 sec.; 500 yards...
...clad in a handsome blue uniform and with a slow, understanding smile. Frenchmen know him as the still active President of the Inter-Allied Military Commission to enforce the Treaty of Versailles. Of an evening he is to be found with a pipe and a friend at his snug little house, 138 Rue de Grenelle, Paris...