Word: tight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is another opus entitled "Sit Tight" with Winnie Lightner and Joe E. Brown. The advice of this reviewer...
Investigation of the affairs of defunct Caldwell & Co. (TIME, Nov. 24 et seq.) has revealed many a skin-tight alliance between the banking interests of Rogers Clark Caldwell and the newspaper-political interests of his crony, Col. Luke Lea. Last week a federal grand jury pried into the affairs not of the big Caldwell-controlled bank of Tennessee but the smaller Holston-Union National Bank of Knoxville which went under early in the storm caused by the failure of Caldwell & Co. What the jury found was not pleasing. Contemplation of it lead to what many southerners had long expected...
Quiet, colorless, eminently righteous is the Chicago Evening Post. It boasts the best financial, society and art pages in Chicago but is conservative to the point of impotence in local controversies. Last week bald, tight-lipped John Charles Shaffer, 77, publisher of the Post for 30 years and of the Indiana Star group, let the Post go into receivership, apparently to become a mouthpiece for loud-yawping Mayor William Hale Thompson. The Post had lost money consistently, recently as much as $75,000 a year. Receivers were George Fulmer Getz, millionaire coal dealer, and his partner Charles Fitzmorris, onetime police...
...Crimson players were jumped at the start by an eager Husky team, who rolled up a two-point lead before the University got into its stride. Throughout the first half the game was a tight battle between the two teams, but the period ended with a score of 15 to 14 in favor of the home team...
Most famed of "agony columns" is that of the London Times. In its front page, packed tight with seven columns of classified advertisements, are found those anguished messages from "Faithful" to "L. E."; from "Heartbroken" to "Gladys." In U. S. dailies too, the "personal" is a commonplace of the classified page. But it was with some astonishment, fortnight ago, that readers of the Saturday Evening Post saw in a lower corner of a page the following advertisement...