Word: snugly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sinaia. in the mountains north of Bucharest, is the snug retreat of Rumania's King Carol. Hostess there during the Jugoslav royal visit was Divorcé Carol's sister, ex-Queen Elisabeth of Greece. Italian newsorgans were furious. Rumania lately turned down a proposal by Benito Mussolini that she sign a treaty pledging assistance to Italy in case of a war with Jugoslavia. From Italy's standpoint the Rumanian Government, by consenting to a Jugoslavian state visit, was offering a rebuff to Italy, putting Il Duce's political nose out of joint...
...more she married Vanderbilt in Manhattan when she was 21. From then on, plump, ambitious, fabulously energetic Alva Vanderbilt was to find that her successive environments were always just a little too confining. The ever-present temptation was to burst out of them as she would an over-snug bodice...
Northernmost point of New York State, snug against the Canadian border, is Rouse's Point, identified in Baedeker's guidebook as a U. S. "frontier-station," in the U. S. Government's mind as a famed port of entry for Canadian liquor. Its local press is the weekly North Countryman. Last week the North Countryman charged itself, along with the rest of the U. S. Press, with "selling the Depression to the people through millions of columns of free advertising in the guise of news." The North Countryman (circ. 2,000) promised to print not another line...
...Warehouse Manager and his three chief accomplices were sentenced to "the supreme measure of social defense," death by shooting, which was promptly meted out. Three other accomplices were sent to alternately sweat and freeze in remote forced labor camps. The remaining two jam thieves will spend three years comparatively snug in jail...
...then there is the witchery which the polished buttons, the gold braid, the snug capes, cast over even the most surfeited debutante; fortunately those crisp commands prevent a military encounter under the chandeliers of the Copley. Last there is the rumor, the vague suspicion, that the librettist who conceived "In the Army there's sobriety, promotion's very slow," was nearly half right...