Word: tight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tight-lipped Prime Minister Count Stephan de Bethlen hurried back to Budapest last week from Rome. On his flying visit he had lunched with Il Rex, had talked several times for several hours with Il Duce, once for an hour and a quarter with Papal Secretary of State Cardinal Pacelli...
Because suicide is almost the gravest sin in the rigid Communist code of political morals, the editor of Youth Pravda (news-organ of the Russian organization corresponding to Boy Scouts) found himself in a tight fix. His hero-worshipping young readers worshipped Vladimir Mayakovsky who had now greatly sinned. It was as though Chief Scout Lord Baden-Powell should sin. But the official poet laureate, Demian Bedny, saved the situation, announced as it were ex cathedra that the poet had shot himself while suffering from "temporary insanity," had died in honor, a proper hero for boys under 14. No mention...
Brother Ted & Mrs. Ted were quartered in the Lincoln bedroom on the second floor of the White House. Tight-lipped and camera-shy, he combats all publicity linking him with his brother. He even refused to be photographed with the President. His contention is that he is a "private citizen" deserving no public attention. Smaller than Brother Herbert, Brother Ted is short and stocky, with features and expressions about the eyes and mouth that resemble the President's. He, too, made money as a mining engineer, retired to Palo Alto to teach. Bronchitis kept him from the inaugural...
...CRIMSON reporter, "and it is of use to know how many of your neighbors think with you. But I must say that my reaction to the results of the balloting is a keen disappointment in seeing that college men are not willing to forego the doubtful pleasure of becoming 'tight' in order that the community as a whole may benefit...
While working for a newspaper several years ago, Mr. Williamson conceived the idea of taking undersea pictures from a water-tight, steel tube with a window in its bottom, suspended from an object on the surface. The plan worked successfully, and he soon organized a company of submarine photographers, and set out for the West Indies...