Word: tight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite air-tight censorship Japan's Cabinet was known to have split on the issue of economy v. militarism, with Finance Minister Fujii battling to the last ditch for a balanced budget. The last ditch in Japan is the point at which the Army and Navy, responsible solely to the Divine Emperor, threaten to withdraw their ministers, without which no Japanese Cabinet can exist. In the bitter dawn. War Minister General Senjuro Hayashi and Navy Minister Admiral Mineo Osumi hurled this final threat and Finance Minister Fujii crumpled, accepting their demands which means saddling Japan with...
...time the utility average registered a new all-time low, some points below the old bear market barrier. Some day, when the utility stocks have passed into nobler and purer hands, we may again become bullish on them, but just now the best thing to do is to sit tight...
Standing 6 ft. 2 in. high, weighing 190 lb., he charged through the corn. Husking barehanded, with his hook strapped tight to his right hand, he grasped each ear off its stalk tight in his left hand, ripped away the husks with his right, snapped the ear from its stem. Bang-bang-bang went the hard husked ears of bright corn against the tall bangboard-about 40 per minute. Balko fell farther and farther behind in the race down the field, but his wagon box was filling faster. Drenched with sweat, he husked the corn on his own rows quicker...
...concerns an impoverished French gentleman, a refugee from the Revolution, named Paul (Pierre Fresnay). Turning adventurer, he picks up a virginal chanteuse, takes her across the Channel to Brighton. It is 1811; Brummell struts at Bath; in & out of prim Adam houses parades the world of fashion; Guardsmen wear tight breeches; George IV is Regent. Paul's plan is to marry off his Melanie (small, saucy Yvonne Printemps) to a highborn tripper, thereby assuring himself a pension. The Regent himself asks Melanie to a souper à deux. The choleric Earl of Harringford offers her protection and a house just...
...Gosses are a clannish family living modestly and quietly in various parts of Connecticut but there is not a trace of nepotism in the old family concern. From the president down, salaries are low and the everlasting watchword is tight-fisted efficiency...