Word: snugly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That Prince Friedrich of Prussia should lie snug in a household so close to the British Royal Family was not to be endured in wartime, more especially since the Duke had for years spoken highly in Mayfair drawing rooms of what a good job Hitler was doing in Germany. So three weeks ago Prince Friedrich was moved to an ordinary internment camp. Last week London learned that the King had been graciously pleased to discharge the Duke of Buccleuch & Queensbury from his sinecure on May 10 last and appoint the Duke of Hamilton & Brandon to be Lord Steward...
...Roosevelt and Canada's Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. The arrangement itself was greeted in Canada with delight. Canadians like the U. S. They have to: The Dominion of Canada is vast but inhabited Canada amounts to a corridor, nowhere much wider than 200 miles, which lies snug against 3,000 miles of U. S. border...
...Into a snug nutshell Paris-soir last week crammed a smug definition of Europe's war. It is a "conflict of two civilizations and of two mysticisms-that of gold or liberal capitalism, which is that of America, and that of the service of the State and of labor, which is that of Nazi Germany." Still paying lip service to gold and liberal capitalism, the men of Vichy indicated through their actions last week which "mysticism" Petain France endorsed. "Germany invites us to reconstruct Europe," wrote Rightist Deputy Fernand-Laurent in Le Jour. "I do not hesitate...
...their dance tonight. Latest reports had Chairman Ash Campbell moaning about some spruce trees which had to be skied up to the dining hall, he having blithely persuaded the arborist to "deliver" them on Thursday, instead of Wednesday afternoon; but he promises that all will be snug and cozy, with Mr. Berigan pledged to soft and danceable tempos...
...Parliament convened last week after the holidays, greying Marcel Cachin, Communist Senator, decided not to risk going to Paris, lay snug at his villa in Brittany, and his only other Communist colleague also stayed home. Barrel-chested, leather-lunged Maurice Thorez, French Communist Party leader, had to keep quiet-he was A.W.O.L. from the Army. In famed Sante Prison sat many of the 72 French Communist Deputies, arrested after the Party was outlawed (TIME, Oct. 23), one by one on charges of this or that "illegal activity." But seven Communist Deputies who were serving in the Army (where their activities...