Word: tight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least one of their pictures." Subjects were of every variety except the sexy: clipper ships, famed fires, wood-burning locomotives, horse-racing, prizefights, pioneers, Prohibition propaganda, baseball, domestic scenes, deathbeds of the Presidents, etc., etc. Now collectors' items, one Currier & Ives print (The Life of a Hunter-A Tight Fix) has brought $3,000. Though many of the prints were colored, they came off the presses plain, went to a great centre table where women workers added blues, reds, greens with lavish brushes. The 32 reproductions in this book give a good cross-section of the more than...
When a Frenchman is sick he keeps close indoors, with all his windows tight shut night & day. This shaggy old Foreign Minister Aristide Briand has done for more than a month. His bachelor bedroom is in the Foreign Office. He could slip down for the hour or two of work a day permitted by his doctors without breathing a single sniff of possibly deadly fresh air. In this manner the greatest living Frenchman fought bronchitis and won, emerged in palpably good health last week to face his enemies as the Chamber of Deputies convened for its short, pre-Christmas session...
From August he learned many useful facts, many ornamental dodges. August had been everywhere, done everything and everybody; but when he was in a tight place was apt to confess himself a miserable and not quite bright sinner. From failure and success he made equally quick recoveries. Edevart and he roamed the country, peddled worthless watches, fished, worked in the fields, schemed, got drunk and lost everything, time & again. August, always on the way up or down, never got anywhere; but Edevart nearly made his pile, succeeded at least in giving his young brother the chance to reap where...
...first year men after a fast dribble through the opposing defense. Watertown next retaliated by sending the ball through the Harvard center forward for a goal. For the next few minutes of play the game was closely contested. Finally, W. B. Chase '34 forced the ball through a tight defense and scored the deciding point in the last half minute of play. HARVARD 1934 WATERTOWN Lawrence, g. g., Wheeler Masjoan, l.f.b. r.f.b., Vartan Parkinson, r.f.b. l.f.b., Perkins Robbins, l.h.b. r.h.b., Wells Thacher, c.h.b. c.h.b., Boujicanian Streeter, r.h.b. l.h.b., Simmonds Whitney, l.o.f. r.o.f., Paine Baxter, l.i.f. r.i.f., Fitzgerald Martin...
...dark thought: Secretary Mellon apparently does not anticipate any such sudden upturn of U. S. business in the next six months as would reproduce the "tight money" situation and a marked increase in the rate of interest the Treasury must pay for cash...