Word: tight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night they took William Cody Kelley from his cell, stripped him except for shorts and socks, marched him into the death chamber where there are three chairs. Into the middle chair they plopped Killer Kelley, strapped him tight, put a blindfold over his eyes. Beneath the chair was a trough containing twelve potassium cyanide "eggs." Under the trough was a bucket of sulphuric acid. Silently the guards withdrew and sealed the door. Through the windows peered 15 physicians. A lever was pulled. The "eggs" dropped into the bucket. White fumes boiled up. In ten seconds Kelley was unconscious...
...counsel the committee retained Thomas William Hardwick, onetime (1914-19) Senator, onetime (1921-23) Governor of Georgia. A fat-faced, roly-poly little man in horn-rimmed spectacles, he rustled papers between nicotine-stained fingers, showed none of Ferdinand Pecora's mental agility in driving witnesses into tight corners. Counsel Hardwick had great difficulty pronouncing "swastika," finally compromised on "swat-sicka." For three full days the U. S. Government provided an official soundboard from which outraged foes of Nazidom could vent their indignation against Hitlerite Germany. Some revelations pried out of pro-Nazi witnesses...
George Cukor has just returned from England. Now this in itself is not a remarkable fact, but in this instance George has been in the tight little isle with a very definite purpose in mind. To lay the finger on the spot, Hollywood has decided that David Copperfield is a good subject for macoration, and Mr. Cuker has been in England getting local color with the aid of a Baedeker's Guide...
...Ballet from "Rosamunde" Schubert *Spanish Dance from "La Vida Breve" de Falla "Cricus Day," Fantasy (Eight Pictures from Memory) Op. 8 Deems Taylor I. Street Parade II. The Big Top III. Bareback Riders IV. a. The Lion Cage b. The Dog and Monkey Circus c. The Waltzing Elephant V. Tight-Rope Walker VI. Jugglers VII. Clowns (First Performance in Boston) *Concerto for Pianoforte No. 2 in G minor Saint-Saens Soloist: Elizabeth Trvers Behnke *Victor Herbert Favorites Arranged by Sanford *To a Water Lily MacDowell Trepak Russian Dance Ballerian...
...Johnston, who developed the practice of putting his brother's fighters on his increasingly unsuccessful cards, finally alienated the best of the country's fight managers and boxers who once considered a Garden engagement a crowning achievement. The final blow fell when the Ross-Petrolle lightweight championship tight was held last winter in a rival stadium in the distant and inconvenient Bronx...