Word: snug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Little known is the County Council, elected by London householders to sit obscurely in the colonnaded pile of the County Hall across the Thames from the Embankment. Much better known is the Lord Mayor, but he lords it over only the half square mile known as The City. Snug in the knowledge that Labor had never yet won a city election, the Conservatives dozed through the Councilmen's campaign. They stirred uneasily last week when a Labor crowd in Camberwell Baths howled Conservative Newspaper Publisher Lord Beaverbrook off the platform and sang "The Red Flag." Next morning his Daily...
Long drawers, stalwart and snug, were produced. "These seem very good," said the Queen. "Are they all wool...
Inside the Senate Office Building at Washington all was snug and warm as Senator Black badgered onetime Postmaster General Brown about airmail contracts which the Administration had canceled for "fraud and collusion...
...told the fraternity's Graduate Body, owners of the house, that the furnace was worn out and ought to be replaced. But no one listened to a janitor. Still grumbling, he climbed up to the sleeping rooms on the second and third floors. Finding the boys snug in their beds, he pushed down a few barely-opened windows, went home...
...Snug as a woodchuck old Samuel Insull had holed in last week in his Athens apartment while two potent gatherings debated his future and his past. In Athens the entire Greek Cabinet, which had once decided to deport him Jan. 31, argued his future for two hours. The Foreign Minister, having taken the brunt of U. S. Ambassador Lincoln MacVeagh's ire, was for deportation, the Minister of Interior against. Premier Panayoti Tsaldaris was on the fence. The spell of cold, wet weather Greece has been having decided the argument. Premier Tsaldaris announced that "in the present inclement weather...