Word: snugness
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Though the words must have all but stuck in the throat of such a life-long pacifist, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald announced last week in his official residence at snug No. 10 Downing Street a new big-navy policy for the British Empire. The announcement was a shining victory for that doughty seadog Admiral Earl Beatty who has clamored for the last four years that "Britain must free herself from the strangle hold of the London Naval Treaty" with the U. S. and Japan...
...barracks in Riga to take up posts along the empty streets of the 700-year-old city. Telephones rang in army and police posts all through Latvia, and in dozens of smaller towns and villages other patrols went out into the night. Nothing happened, because all good Letts stayed snug in their beds. Next morning they woke to martial law, machine guns posted round the headquarters of the Socialist party, a censored Press and a dictatorship ruling the country...
Little known is the County Council, elected by London householders to sit obscurely in the colonnaded pile of the County Hall across the Thames from the Embankment. Much better known is the Lord Mayor, but he lords it over only the half square mile known as The City. Snug in the knowledge that Labor had never yet won a city election, the Conservatives dozed through the Councilmen's campaign. They stirred uneasily last week when a Labor crowd in Camberwell Baths howled Conservative Newspaper Publisher Lord Beaverbrook off the platform and sang "The Red Flag." Next morning his Daily...
Inside the Senate Office Building at Washington all was snug and warm as Senator Black badgered onetime Postmaster General Brown about airmail contracts which the Administration had canceled for "fraud and collusion...
...told the fraternity's Graduate Body, owners of the house, that the furnace was worn out and ought to be replaced. But no one listened to a janitor. Still grumbling, he climbed up to the sleeping rooms on the second and third floors. Finding the boys snug in their beds, he pushed down a few barely-opened windows, went home...