Word: tight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That a point of such importance to our naval policy and our national appropriations should have received such scant attention in the American newspapers is therefore most surprising. For not only would such a plan bring about a tight rapprochement between Great Britain and the United States, especially in Far Eastern waters, with unpredictable reactions from Japan; but also the present national appropriations for building up the navy toward treaty strength would be vitally affected...
...Founder died in 1923. Spence School, endowed and incorporated, now occupies a nine-story uptown building, where its 26 boarders pay up to $2,200 to live & learn. The 174 day pupils arrive in limousines or in the school bus which shuttles swankly up & down Park Avenue. In the tight little world of metropolitan finishing schools, Spence has had its troubles. By 1932 it was undeniably losing ground to such rivals as Brearley, Chapin, Miss Hewitt's, Nightingale-Bamford. In alarm the trustees merged it with small Miss Chandor's School, under Valentine Laura Chandor. By the time...
...first press conference after the AAA decision. President Roosevelt sat back in his chair with chin up, cigaret holder cocked rakishly out of a corner of his mouth, a tight-lipped grin on his face, waiting for unwelcome questions. Every inch of floor space was covered by newshawks waiting with pencils poised. The President's grin widened. There was no news, he announced, except-and he stopped to cast a roguish look over his shoulder at the tousled-headed Democratic National Committee publicity man- except that Charley Michelson needed a haircut...
...Europe's perennial Men of the Years, Stanley Baldwin, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Kamal Ataturk and Dr. Eduard Benes held undiminished sway. The outstanding exhibition of the century in French political tight-rope walking was given in 1935 but as the year entered its last hours the fate of Premier Pierre Laval, 1931'S Man of the Year, continued to tiptoe (see p. 18). In Asia practical control of North China was obtained by Japan in 1935 so adroitly and inconspicuously that it was a major Japanese triumph to have avoided producing...
Frantically last week the Dutch Government's radio station at Willemstad called The Hague for help. To his vast dismay Governor B. W. T. van Slobbe had found 97 Gómezes landing, bag & baggage, on his tight little island of Curaçao, only 40 miles off the coast of Venezuela. It was no laughing matter. The fugitives were the children, grandchildren, in-laws, aunts, uncles and cousins of dead Dictator Juan Vicente Gómez of Venezuela, seeking safety from the wrath of a people that sexy old codger had oppressed for more than 20 years. Anyone...