Word: taut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twelve tired-eyed jurors, taut and nervous, filed solemnly into the District of Columbia Supreme Court room one morning last week after a day and a night's deliberation. A young bank teller, as foreman, cleared his throat huskily, read from a blue paper in his shaky hand: "Guilty, with a recommendation to the mercy of the court...
...number of dogs in Chicago. This procedure eliminated all but 21 who were sent into another room, made to chase imaginary dogs in a hypothetical back yard. One Philip Keafta, who had chinned himself 45 times, held his breath 45 seconds, ran about the room, tripped on a taut wire hazard, fell and broke his ankle. He was qualified, however, and when he emerges from the hospital will, be s City Dog Catcher, salary $2,200 a year...
Notre Dame's Savoldi and Carideo vododyoed an Indiana team too slow to gain ground and too taut to yield it. Notre Dame 14, Indiana...
...Leipzig student corps, bearing his student cap, which now lies with him in his grave. The funeral's pace was set by the dull thudding "Death March" from Gö;tterdämmerung (The Twilight of the Gods*), interrupted by low, whining air planes from which whipped taut black streamers. One automobile was in the procession, that of Widow Stresemann. Led by grizzled President von Hindenburg, who left the sad line at the Foreign Office, other mourners stalked solemnly afoot to the graveyard...
FRANCIS JURASCHEK President Freystadt-Juraschek, Inc. New York City Sirs: By all means let's have one magazine with full sails and a taut sheet-rope. THE SOUTHWICK Co. New York City Sirs: It takes some courage to limit the size of your publication. CLARENCE R. LINDNER San Francisco Examiner San Francisco, Cal. Sirs: It takes considerable courage, I imagine, to take such a stand, but as a reader and advertiser appreciate your policy and hope you will benefit by it. W. S. BASINGER Passenger Traffic Mgr. Union Pacific System Omaha, Neb. Sirs: In the opinion of Mr. Lillibridge...