Word: tight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Darkness fell, the crowds stayed, still growing. As tenseness increased an immaculate young man with a monocle in his eye, yellow gloves and tight rolled umbrella firmly gripped in his hand, inspected the crowd with amazement and standing next to a United Press correspondent, hailed a policeman...
Meanwhile, in Oklahoma, lines held tight in Governor Murray's oil war. After eight days martial law had failed to budge economic law and Oklahoma crude was sellins at 52? per bbl. Governor Murray announced that two refining companies (Champlin and Cushing) had offered to pay his price of $1 per bbl. if he would remove guardsmen from their wells. "If I'm convinced the offers were made in good faith. I might allow them to open up," mused he between spits of tobacco juice as he set out for a week-end visit to Texas...
...loosen the tight lips of those who know the gunmen, the New York World-Telegram and the Daily News each offered $5,000 reward. The Hearst American promised to pay $10,000 for "exclusive information." The Patrolmen's Benevolent Association posted a $10,000 reward...
Newspapers and magazines are closed tight...
...then Youngest U. S. College President. He began at once to reorganize his inland, politically controlled institution, to cajole dollars from lackadaisical Indiana legislators. He put in practice a then radical notion: to mold education to the student rather than to force the student into a tight educational jacket...