Word: snug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spite of the fact that our worthy contemporary, the Harvard Crimson, disapproves of football rallies, we are going to have one tonight. With the snug dignity which permeates the whole Cambridge atmosphere, which drips unceasingly from the mouldy eyes of the historic old brick jails that crowd the notorious. 'Hawvad Yawd' with that serious, ness and intensity of purpose that clouds the wrinkled brew of her youngest son. 'The Crime' has come out with the characteristic statement that football rallies are puerile. This is beside the point. They establish an atmosphere and create a feeling that pervades the whole college...
There he treasures the collection of Japanese antiquities which is his pride. Above his snug lair floats a long streamer displaying a gigantic carp in black and white. "It is the Japanese symbol of strength and virility," chuckles M. Clemenceau to puzzled visitors...
...France went for a boat ride, was met some miles from Geneva by Dr. Stresemann's motor. Chuckling at the success of their ruse to deceive newsgatherers, they were driven swiftly across the Swiss border to the tiny French mountain village of Thoiry. There they sought a snug inn famed for its cuisine, the Chalet Russe...
...Their Majesties twice sought the theatre last week, twice graciously applauded able mummers- U. S. mummers. At the snug Empire Theatre, Fred and Adele Astaire delighted Royalty with that song and dance, Lady Be Good. Next evening Miss Jane Cowl brazened before the grandson of super purist Queen Victoria, in Easy Virtue. From the King-Emperor's vocal chords there issued not, last week, the baleful rebuke with which his grandmama blasted all questionable jests (even one cracked precociously in infancy by the present Edward of Wales) : "We are not amused...
Prowling on, the camera grinder paused before the tiny Café Masalli, since 1705, a snug topers' haven. Within, a paunchy Hungarian was munching a sandwich, playing with a pretzel, drinking beer. He too consented to emerge and pose. He was Francis Molnar, most famed of Hungarian dramatists, illustrious in Manhattan as the author of Liliom, and The Swan...