Word: watchdogs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fallen is a man of lofty station, in keeping with the best traditions of tragedy. He is a man high in the Hierarchy of the University, a champion of righteous respectability, the sometime student godfather and alltime student watchdog, and a driver of sporty Fontiacs...
Even so, the watchdog's Pontiac creeps in the shadows on the Wigglesworth side of the avenue. Blind to all else, his eye follows the quintet's every move...
Dedicated to a noble creed the protection of the innocent against the deceiving, the watchdog sees not the ensnaring chain approaching. And suddenly he is trapped, hemmed to the curb by the long chain of cars passing by and the drivers anaware that they are the feels of an insidious force...
...afflicted territory like a bird of ill-omen. Turkey, Jugoslavia, and Italy undoubtedly would not resist taking a morsel of Greece if it were dangled before their eyes. The one hope that Greece has of setting her affairs without interference and loss is to enlist British support. The British watchdog, with a sentimental interest since Byron and a commercial interest antedating that, has already growled but may have to do a little judicious nipping to preserve "the cause of Greek independence...
...many of our readers recall the days of the so-called "prosperity"? Then daily proclamations from the Department of the Treasury decreed the golden age, upon the authority of the mild-mannered gentleman who served as such a polite watchdog of the nation's finances. (Mr. Morgenthau can never hope to achieve a like benignity; the poetry of yesterday has yielded to prose.) To be a broker was not at that time the equivalent of pauperism, nor were pent-houses merely points of departure for leaps to the pavement below...