Word: prudently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Raskob's inauguration of the great political game of Claiming States. First of the Big Four to begin the game in a formal way, Mr. Raskob made his beginning a bold one. It takes 266 electoral votes to elect the President. Mr. Raskob said that "any reasonably prudent businessman would, at this time," classify 27 States, with 309 electoral votes, in the Smith-Robinson column. He named his claims as follows...
...general approval, is to treat the woman impersonally, as if she were a mere head of beef. Let the prude bring in a companion; let the companion sit guard in an uncomfortable iron chair. Many women become amorous as they recline in the dentist's chair. The prudent dentist hurts such patients enough to make them forget their involuntary eroticism. All agreed that the practitioner who coos to female clients is a fool...
...people commission me to do it, I shall with the aid of the Congress effect a real reorganization and consolidation of governmental activities upon a business basis and institute the real economy which comes from prudent expenditure...
Fashions are of two types, experimental and accepted. Experimental fashions, observable at the opera and expensive restaurants, are dangerous for the prudent shopper. Accepted fashions show themselves on the street, in good but inexpensive restaurants...
Forced to land in the wilds, what will the prudent aviator rejoice if he has remembered, regret if he has forgotten? Pilot George H. Buck of Idaho, last week, prepared a list. Useful cargo: i carrier pigeon, i loaf of bread, i big knife, i canteen of water, i ham, i shotgun, i six-shooter, i axe, i motor generator to supply light...