Word: snugness
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...formality of the calls made Professor Doktor Heuss a bit uneasy. He had wanted the presidency as a sounding board for his democratic ideas. But now that he had it, his thoughts went back to his snug flat near Stuttgart, his cozy book-lined study with the apple branches brushing the windows. When reporters asked him if he wished to be addressed as "Excellency," Heuss snapped: "Certainly not! To everybody and anybody, I shall remain Herr Heuss...
Despite the surface evidence that television had built too quickly and recklessly, the industry was keeping its fingers crossed and hoping that it would be snug and shipshape by the first winds of winter...
Bavaria's countryside, its soft-rolling hills and gabled farmhouses blanketed by late snow, looked as snug and changeless as ever. Only at a few points along main roads did little, neatly painted buildings strike an odd note: U.S. snack bars, complete with hamburger, jukebox and all the refined necessities of American life. They reminded you that this is, in a sense, America's Bavaria...
Frankie Costello is an underworldling with a difference: he has more money than most bank presidents and he never seems to be around when any rough stuff is going on. This enables him to maintain a snug Manhattan apartment and a big house in the Long Island countryside, to contribute to worthy causes, and to control as many Tammany politicians as he finds convenient...
When Geoffrey and Mary married, in 1938, they had a snug life. They paid $7 a week for their house in Surrey, went to theaters and movies, treated themselves to an occasional night on the town in London, entertained friends at home, ran a small...