Word: tight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the Captain was a lanky young woman of cultured mien. Her tousled blonde mop, high cheek bones and wide, tight mouth made her look remarkably like Charles Augustus Lindbergh, particularly when her hat was off. Her name was Amelia Earhart. She was working in a Boston settlement house but she had learned in California how to fly. With admonitions to keep her hat off as much as possible Publisher Putnam, whom Amelia Earhart soon learned to call "G. P." or "Gip," bore her off to Mrs. Guest. She got the job. Few months later "G. P." was able...
...billowed behind a lumbering coach-&-four as it careened into a ring at the W. K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Ranch at Pomona one afternoon last week. At the reins was Captain William Banning, pioneer stage driver. Beside him on the box was grinning Will Rogers. Inside the coach, holding tight, sat California's cowboy-booted Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. and Cereal Manufacturer Will Keith Kellogg (corn flakes), owner of the ranch. Bands played, a crowd of actors, actresses, ranchers and California citizens great & small cheered as Mr. Kellogg climbed down from the coach...
...photography, which takes advantage of every opportunity for unique angles and views of the unconnected material. And while the supporting cast perspires through its impossible antics, Muller goes on his way, saving lives, making love to placid Marian Marsh, and finally returning to the soil. To those who like tight lips, impassioned appeals, shining instruments, and palpitating perspiration the movie will be a success...
...victory of the younger men was attributed to a more intelligent grasping of the principles of base running. Although slightly bewildered during the early innings, the field workers tightened up in the final five rounds and presented an air-tight defense which nipped in the bud most of the opposing team's efforts to add to their lead...
Just how tight money is in Germany today the Government rashly advertised last week by seizing the Berlin bank account of famed Erich Maria (All Quiet on the Western Front) Remarque and accusing him: 1) of having established a residence in the Netherlands and 2) of banking outside Germany his dollar, pound, franc, lira and other royalties...