Word: shutting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plant was dangerously low. Where four inches of rain had fallen last October, this October fell less than one inch. Abandoned private steam plants were prepared for operation. Housewives had to be told to cut down on current. Only every other street light burned at night. Electrical signs were shut off. The lights on the tower of the city hall went dark for the first time in 30 years...
...Police, detectives, Naval officials hastened to the scene. Roundabout the safe room were strewn nitroglycerine cans, percussion caps, crowbars, electric drills, gloves, an acetylene torch. The outer door of the massive safe, its lock drilled and mangled, was open. The inner door, dented, drilled, wrenched on its hinges, was shut. For three hours a safe expert knifed the steel door with an oxyacetylene torch, at last swung it open Potent though the raid had been, the $84.500 was intact...
...Cross, the most democratic and at the same time the most exclusive of all orders of chivalry. . . . † It is recruited from that very limited circle of men who see what is needed to be done, and do it at once at their own peril, and having done it, shut up like an oyster...
With babe on knee George V rode through a mile of fluttering women's handkerchiefs and hearty Englishmen's cheers. At the Palace he kissed Betty goodbye, shut her firmly into the limousine, ordered the chauffeur to drive to the house of her parents, the Duke and Duchess of York (No. 145 Piccadilly). As Baby Betty waved out the back window, George V firmly marched up the stair to the royal apartments...
...Success" is the story of a prominent English politician, who, at middle age, finds himself shut in from the pleasures of the world by success. Suddenly he has a chance to recapture his first love, and his struggle to cling to romance, while success closes about him once more, forms the central interest of the play...