Word: snugly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Snug-buttoned in thick greatcoats against the night cold the Generals paced up and down in the darkness puffing glowing cigarets until the sky paled and they could see. With the morning light it looked as if the plains below were on fire. Long streamers of smoke led out in parallel columns from the Italian camp to the river, then across to the mountains beyond. Dust clouds from the feet of marching...
...Wops, Hunkies, Polocks,' Jews. Rich men's sons, poor men's sons, working side by side, digging, planting, grubbing. Fat boys, thin boys, tall boys, short boys, handsome boys with curly hair, ugly lads with straight and greasy locks. Boys with spectacles, men dressed in warm, snug clothes. Men dressed in torn and ragged sweaters and trousers. Ex-clerks, ex-newsboys, ex-factory workers, ex-jobbers. I quote from this C. O.'s speech. "Men . . . you are now making history. . . . You are part of a great army, an army of peace and labor. You are going...
...help North Americans, and especially Albertans, embrace Social Credit, Canterbury's tall Dean will make a seven-week whirlwind U. S.-Canadian speaking tour, then whisk home to snug England...
Rich old Trinity Church, whence such bishops as William Thomas Manning have been elevated, has seven satellite chapels, snug berths which are insulated against penury as well as against inordinate theo logical liberalism. Grey-haired, good-looking Dr. Sutton became curate of Trinity Chapel 22 years ago after having been headmaster of St. Paul's School in Baltimore. Made vicar, he was nearly elected suffragan bishop of New York in 1921. Dr. Sutton is a bachelor. Inside his small parish he devoted himself to friendly pastoral visiting. Outside it he demonstrated interest in causes like the Society for Promoting...
...Austria and Hungary teem with assorted illegal armaments, but neither could put in the field forces strong enough to cope with the Little Entente. That job, shrewd Zita thinks, will be taken on by the Great Powers to prevent just such a general war as Dr. Benes envisioned. In snug, smug Habsburg circles last week chances were considered better than good that, if Otto is first proclaimed merely Regent in Vienna, the Great Powers will keep the Little Entente in check, promising to let them act if attempts are made to restore him as Emperor. Then in a few years...