Word: tight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bonus boosters were not long celebrating their victory. With the petition completed, the House under its rules would shortly be forced to a record vote on the issue. Many a Representative was thus put in a tight hole. If he voted for the bill he could be accused of greenbackery. If he voted against it, veterans would never forgive him. About the House Chamber circulated pitiful pleas that the Administration help its friends out of their predicament by getting the Ways & Means committee to report the bill unfavorably before the petition becomes effective, a piece of parliamentary hocus-pocus that...
...sometimes far to the left, and again most unexpectedly it may rebound into his own court. John Henry used similar tactics with Haiti's scheming politicians. To avoid even the appearance of militarism he wore civilian clothes. Through tall, thin, cafe-au-lait Louis Borno, John Henry kept tight rein on all Haitian legislation. Under him Haiti's internal and external debt was reduced to $14,000,000. He established eleven hospitals, 139 rural clinics to treat malaria, hookworm and yaws, built 1,000 miles of new roads, a half dozen new bridges of concrete and steel...
...Senators (Copeland, Barbour and Reynolds), who had written letters to the War Department on Joe Silverman's behalf, last week hastened to explain that they had done so merely out of kindness. Meantime Mr. Silverman had hired A. Mitchell Palmer to represent his legal interests and was sitting tight, saying nothing...
Spotless as alabaster statues were the greyhound Lilly of Devoir and the big French poodle Nunsoe Duc de la Terrace. The tight white coat of the wire-haired fox terrier Flornell Spicy Bit of Halleston was hound-marked with tan; the silky white of the pointer Benson of Crombie marked with liver. Snowflake, the Old English sheepdog, looked like a fresh snow drift blanketed with fine blue-grey ash. Only the Pekingese Wu Foo of Kingswere showed no white in its tawny-red fluff. The final judging lasted 20 minutes. Dr. Jarrett watched the six prize-winners as they circled...
...order of cheese. When the mouse saw the cheese, he ran up the man from O entry's legs and sat on the table, where he ate some of the cheese. There was also some beer spilled on the table, which the mouse drank, and, naturally, he became very tight. When the waitress, Minerva, the nice one, came to the table, the mouse would run to that side of the table, too. He was a funny mouse. Finally the man from O entry took him to his room, where he lives now. The name of the mouse is Minerva, after...