Word: tight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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High-voiced Amos is Freeman F. Gosden, 31, native of Richmond, Va. He is a tall, erect blonde with tight, wavy hair, a broad brow and wide-set eyes. He was raised with a Negro "mammy" and a Negro playmate from whom he gained much of his extraordinary knowledge of racial peculiarities. Aged 10, he dove into Annette Kellerman's tank. Aged 12, he held eggs for the magician Thurston. For a year he went to military school in Atlanta. During the War he served in the Navy, then became a traveling tobacco salesman. Returning to Richmond...
While in Kiangsu Province, Nanking's railway minister Sun Fo cast about to remedy "wholesale inefficiency" (see p. 24), capable General Hsi Yu-San, next door in Honan Province, kept a tight grip on the 40 locomotives and 800 cars which he seized last December...
...from the Record when he protested against the marriages of Negroes and Whites?' It will be said 'Yes, he's the same fellow.' 'Well,' they will say, 'We'll give it to him' "? here Senator Heflin executed an encircling gesture with his hand as if tying a rope tight around his throat?" 'in the neck...
...four British dominions were paired and spaced. Canada & Australia on His Majesty's right beyond the French, New Zealand & South Africa at his left beyond the Japanese. India still in tutelage, and the Irish Free State, were sandwiched tight between firm Mother Britain and grim Italy...
...Chancellor thumbed not once but several times. When either of the Germans made a demand to which the Allies were not prepared to yield, the right Snowden thumbnail was placed tight under the Snowden upper front teeth and snapped twice in accompaniment to the words: "Not a bit of it! [snap] not a bit of it! [snap]" Provocative though this gesture was, Dr. Curtius and Dr. Moldenhaur did not seem to think they were being insulted, since the bony fingers of the Yorkshireman were not spread but closed and doubled as he thumbed...