Word: tight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Academy's first Royal patron George III by Sir Joshua Reynolds to George VI, with the screamingly noticeable exception of Edward VIII. The official portrait of George VI was by Simon Elwes, painted in the gaudy full-dress uniform of the 11th Hussars, called "Cherry Pickers" for their tight crimson breeches...
...hundred feet in the air the quick clap of a snapping guy-rope sounds no worse to the ear of a tight-rope walker than do the echoes of the Deutschland bombing sound to the Non-Intervention Committee in London. Only to be expected after such an attack is the news of the bombardment of Almeria and of the mobilization of the German fleet and of the British squadron at Gilbraltar. The Italian and German withdrawal from the Spanish Non-Intervention Committee is a far more serious event, however, stopping dead the peace negotiations which in the past fortnight were...
...long meal. That Germany and Italy will go out of their way to fight in Spain is the lesson of the latest crisis, and the moral therefrom is that positive pressure of an economic or political nature must be applied to these countries before they wholly upset the tight-rope team of Europe swaying on the wire called Peace...
...educated in Germany, onetime professor of biology, Finance Minister in the Largo Caballero Cabinet-was not disturbed by these howls. The crisis forced on his predecessor's Government by a revolt of Anarcho-Syndicalists in Barcelona had been smoothly overcome, and Dr. Negrin now had under him a tight, unified, little Cabinet of nine, the sixth Leftist Cabinet since the civil war's outbreak. The refusal of the Anarcho-Syndicalists to participate in a Government that they derided as "bourgeois" worked in Dr. Negrin's favor, for that label took some of the curse of radicalism...
Strengthened by a very tight infield, the Lampoon ball team will take on the legitimate newsmen, who have not been defeated since 1907, when a nifty outfit from a neighboring female institution took them over. Boasting a powerhouse in Chorister Storey who will lead the CRIME into action, the Plympton Street batsmen feel they can cope with the fast balls offered by pitcher Elmer G. Ibis of the alleged humorists. Ibis has broken up many a game with a timely hit and has given the bird to the CRIMSON on several occasions...