Word: tight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Since you say you are through and the best you can do is to advise farmers of Kansas to 'sit tight,' we ask you to resign...
Directly in charge of Dry work under Enforcer-in-Chief Mitchell, was Assistant Attorney General Gustav Aaron Young-quist (successor to famed Mabel Walker Willebrandt). When he came into office last year from the attorney generalship of Minnesota, this quiet, practical, tight-mouthed man declared: "I'm a Dry but not a fanatic." Responsible for actual Dry enforcement under Assistant Attorney General Youngquist was Amos Walter Wright Woodcock, appointed director of Prohibition fortnight...
...that short frocks only were smart on the third (post-deluge) day (which incidentally was fine),the Conservative Evening Standard's male representative at Ascot described as follows for readers who include most of the peerage what seemed to him to be the actual mode this year: "A tight-fitting bodice of transparent muslin with a skirt which may be made in one of two ways: either it is a mass of narrow frills from waist to hem or is gathered at the waist and flows outward, measuring goodness knows how many yards in circumference around the feet...
Actor Robeson played in another O'Neill play. The Emperor Jones; then tried the concert platform. Again he was a great success. He had had no voice training, thought he needed none; but at a concert in Boston a bad cold made his voice "tight and hard and unrecognizable." After that he took lessons. He has been abroad three times: to play in The Voodoo, in The Emperor Jones, to sing "Ol' Man River" in Show Boat. Now he is in London playing in Othello. The Robesons like London, have decided to live there permanently, have taken...
Children. The social workers at Boston seemed rather a grim group, the old of no particular old age, the young without youth. Most were women. They all hurried about with tight faces. The more genial faces belonged to members of the various children's groups. J. Prentice Murphy, Philadelphia, was their philosopher. Noted he: "We cannot be strictly logical about human beings. We can prophesy with accuracy about masses of people?but not about individuals. Approximately 70,000 illegitimate children will be born in the U. S. in 1930, but no community can foretell who of its people...