Word: tight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon four Boy Scouts, part of a volunteer army which was scouring the countryside, stumbled into a deep gully about two miles back from the road in the Baldwin Hills. There in weeds as high as a man's head, her face pushed into the dirt, a clothesline tight around her cold little neck was the lifeless body of one of the girls, ravished and murdered. In the bushes a few yards away, similiarly strangled and raped, were the bodies of the others. As the horrible news of California's crime-of-the-year spread through...
...grabbed at the pig's tail, caught it and held on as tight as I could. Then the tail slipped out of my hands, and my barricade went squealing away...
...Premier's grip is particularly tight on the Foreign Office and the Exchequer...
...inspiration of the School of Expression is John Russell Young, 55, White House correspondent of the Washington Star, who looks so much like a storybook Senator that waiters always serve him first. He is a delight to President Roosevelt, who calls him "the Senator," and when in a tight fix at press conferences often finds an out with: "I think I'll deliver the Senator's No. 17." Young, good schoolmaster that he is, has a set of speeches for any occasion. No. 1 is "Our Flag," No. 8 is "America the Beautiful...
...Empty Chair," "Lion of Lucerne," "Old Skipper's Tale." A special Spagnola attraction is a pair of big sand & cement dragons with light-bulb eyes, open mouths to receive coins which tinkle down through the animal, land on spaces marked "Papa Love Mama," "You're a Bit Tight." Last year Sculptor Spagnola ran a coin vote with busts of Landon and Roosevelt. Roosevelt...