Word: tight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sleeping daughter, went out without taking his pistol or knife which lay there. After some time the Penguin stopped. Mrs. Collings thought they were now off the Connecticut shore of the Sound. She heard a struggle, a man's voice saying: "Don't tie his hands too tight." She heard her husband cry: "They're putting me overboard!" Looking out. she saw him fall into the water. She threw him an air-cushion, which one of the pirates retrieved. Then the two men put her into their canoe. They paddled for a long time, back across...
...prints crime news unless there is some extraordinary reason for doing so. Moscow readers unfolded their copies of Izvestia last week and found themselves staring into the sightless eyes of a corpse, a middle-aged grey-bearded corpse in flannel underclothes with a cord and a leather belt knotted tight about his scrawny neck. Below the picture was a caption: "Who Is This...
...Tight as a cocklebur Dictator-President Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona stuck to the saddle of the restless Republic of Portugal last week, a saddle in which he has ridden for the past five years...
This is a tight, tart little diatribe upon Things That Are in the U. S. It is compact with disgust of a shrewd Manhattan lawyer who despises cultural inconsistencies and would like to destroy them. Superficially America's Primer resembles New Russia's Primer (TIME, May 4). But the Russia book was written especially for native schoolchildren. America's Primer is a phrase book for those discontented, restless, loosely anchored, ever-thinking, rarely-doing citizens of the larger U. S. communities who grope for but seldom encompass Reform. They are the folks who discuss what Colyumist Heywood Broun writes...
...penalty will fall upon the murderer. His crime is justified; he has planned it carefully; but the roue's mistress (Kay Francis) suspects Barrymore and finds evidence to justify her suspicions. It is necessary for Barrymore to explain to her with gestures, that he can manufacture a water-tight case against her unless she holds her tongue. Ably constructed, Guilty Hands is made into a murder story in the grand manner, a carnival of bad acts and good intentions, by Barrymore's elaborate characterization...