Word: tight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lawrence was not the only British officer working among the Arabs. For his colleagues he wrote a paper of good advice on The Art of Handling Arabs. Some of his "27 Articles": "Cling tight to your sense of humour. . . . They make no special allowances for you when you dress like them. You will be like an actor in a foreign theatre, playing a part day and night for months, without rest, and for an anxious stake. . . . Do not think from their conduct that they are careless [about religion]. Their conviction of the truth of their faith, and its share...
Oakie, who gets fatter, if not funnier, by the day, is cast as a well-meaning, self-important hick from Azusa, who discovers life and love in Greater Los Angeles. Side-kick Tracy is as tough and tight-lipped as ever, and seems just the kind of trouble-shooter you'd like to have fix your worst enemy's telephone. The pair offset each other nicely, and one is very glad that the girls they fall in love with are room-mates, because double weddings, even by a J.P., are such...
...CORBETT'S LETTER IN THE MARCH 12 ISSUE OF TIME. AS ONE OF THE "ORDINARY PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY BRING UP THEIR OWN CHILDREN" MAY I STATE EMPHATICALLY THAT TO ME ANNE LINDBERGH IS THE EXEMPLIFICATION OF A REAL HELPMATE. SHE STICKS TIGHT TO HER HUSBAND AND SHARES HIS HAZARDS AND FURTHERMORE IS A REAL MENTAL COMRADE. THEY ARE ONE IN SPIRIT AND THAT IS WHAT A REAL MARRIAGE SHOULD BE. A WIFE'S MAIN INTEREST SHOULD BE HER HUSBAND. CHILDREN-ARE BUT A BY-PRODUCT THOUGH AN IMPORTANT BY-PRODl'CT OF MATRIMONY...
Economics where they found the Herr Reichsminister Kurt Schmitt in the correct costume for a Nazi economist : the black tunic and tight leather belt of Adolf Hitler's personal bodyguard. "The main purpose of this reconstruction." said Minister Schmitt, "is to coordinate business and the State. Private business will remain, but it will be put in the service of the people and the State. . . . Honest competition must be but it is to be controlled by strong leadership, focused magnetlike upon the supreme goal of commonweal and service to the nation." With the rhetoric went a plan. All industry...
...crushing. There was. it said, almost no market for ambergris. A fresh supply of 300 Ib. would glut the market, force the price down to from $2 to $5 an oz. But still crowds flocked to sift the sands of Bolinas and the Peppers, the Henrys, the Kenyons sat tight, held fast to their faith in miracles...