Word: snug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...externals distinguish a Church of England bishop from a U. S. Episcopal bishop. For outdoor wear the Church of England bishop affects long gaiters of snug black broadcloth. He is ranked a Lord and so addressed by his flock. But these distinctions have lately seemed irksome to Anglican clergymen. During the Oxford Movement centenary (TIME, July 17). the Bishop of Kensington complained of his gaiters, crying that "100 years have failed to provide us a sensible costume." And last week the Bishop of Bristol told his congregation to cease calling him "My Lord." Declared he: "In the old days, when...
...Snug in their beds, guests slept in Brno's Hotel Europe last week, little recking that a clerk named Knop lay awake in a room on the second floor. With him were his mistress, Irma Zwiestlbauer, and a small child. Clerk Knop was determined to die and he did not care in what company. He set off a bomb of ecrasite, an Austrian shell explosive. Besides gratifying Knop's desire it split the hotel from basement to roof, blew out the front of four stories sent 180-ft. streamers of flame into the air, injured 80 and gave...
...Snug in Canterbury, Very Rev. Dean Hewlett Johnson pursues puttering studies in everything from geology to Japan and from hydraulics to Australia. Last fortnight these studious ramblings got him into trouble. He had noticed that about 3,000 Australians inhabit the Commonwealth's Northern Territory which is nearly twice the size of the Empire of Japan. Since 90,000,000 Japanese are well known to be overcrowded in their Empire, it occurred to the Very Reverend Dean that the 3,000 Australians might make room for at least a few Japanese. Speaking diffidently at Guildford, puttering Dean Johnson said...
...Conference matters last week to take part in the Conservative debate. Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain hewed close to the line of tight, efficient Conservative Party management, left the Baldwins happy in No. 11 while he made Empire policy at his office in the Treasury and in his snug, sumptuous home at No. 37 Eaton Square...
...cycle, 3) to judge the wisdom of a northerly airplane service between the U. S. & Europe. University of Michigan's Ralph L. Belknap is in charge, with four able men helping. Feb. 3, according to a message relayed last week by wireless, the five proceeded out of their snug shack, faced due south, and for the first time in two months watched a squint of sun beam briefly over the mountains...