Word: tight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bandages are now done up tight, in a third totally different way, but White is nowhere to be found. Afraid of being accosted and undressed on the street, he has not dared emerge from the confines of Lowell House for more than a week now. A man's house is his castle, and that is what our Leavitt is sadly in need of right...
...Sanger's father, Michael Hennessy Higgins, was an easygoing, loquacious, free-thinking carver of tombstone saints at Corning, N. Y. He died at 80. Her mother was a tight, aggressive little body who bore eleven children and died at 48. Margaret Higgins, sixth child, was born in 1883, developed tuberculosis from which she recovered only after bearing three children to William Sanger, an architect whom she married in 1900 and divorced in 1921. Now he practices architecture in Albany, N. Y. Of the children, Peggy, the youngest, died when 4 years old. Stuart, 30, Yale '28, once...
Cheering, stamping, climbing over desks and chairs, Miss De Lee's partisans packed the Syracuse courtroom so tight for the State hearing on her reinstatement plea that one oldster fainted and Ward Van De Bogart Jr., 7, who once had his lips taped for whispering, fell sound asleep. Star witness was Ward's big brother Edward. "What did your brother do after the plaster was put on his lips?" Edward was asked. "He started studying," replied the witness. Loyal pupils testified that Trustee Armstrong himself had placed the small flag in the coal bin, that they...
...clock on a cloudy April morning two horsemen clattered up to the country home of Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd in Charles County, Md., 30 mi. southeast of Washington. One's face was tight with pain and his left leg, booted and spurred, hung limp from the stirrup. The other, a chinless, watery-eyed youth, helped his companion dismount, hobble into the house. Dr. Mudd received them in his nightshirt. A kindly, cultured young physician, he was already well established in his country practice, well-liked and well-to-do. He set the hurt man's broken...
...Barthou was pumped full of bullets before he could persuade the British Government to act without Germany. British diplomacy, harping away century after century upon the old string "Divide & Rule," does not readily accept a solution which would screw down everything too tight in Europe...