Word: tight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...busy with World Conference matters last week to take part in the Conservative debate. Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain hewed close to the line of tight, efficient Conservative Party management, left the Baldwins happy in No. 11 while he made Empire policy at his office in the Treasury and in his snug, sumptuous home at No. 37 Eaton Square...
...seven hills around Lough Foyle. Londonderry's tidy harbor, as General Italo Balbo's seaplane armada circled the city with a fearful roar of 48 wide-open motors. They paraded the sky in platoons of six"black-hulled, red, green, white"each platoon being formed by two tight triads. Soon all were moored, and General Balbo and his officers went ashore in motorboats to tread rose petals, cast by Italian children on their way to Londonderry's Guildhall. The 24 seaplanes rode at moorings, drinking gasoline by the hundred-gallon in preparation for the next jump...
...pleasing scenically and photographically. In the inevitable fight-between an octopus and a shark-the shark wins. The stagiest shot is the one that was really most dangerous to make-a python coiling around a native who had been directed to yelp when the coil grew uncomfortably tight. Instead of yelping, the native fainted, had to be rescued by four of his confreres. Sai-Yu, who watched the python shooting, cried all that...
...player named Thomas Arundel Bourn, 23 years younger than Scott. When Dunlap lost, everyone knew what to expect: Tolley would beat Bourn and then take the final. Instead, playing on a course he distrusts because it imposes eccentric penalties on his long drives, Tolley lost to Bourn in a tight match, after 20 holes. Next day, Scott made matters easy by piling up a 5-hole lead in the morning. In the afternoon he won match, title, the distinction of being the oldest Amateur Champion on record and the assurances of old John Ball that there was "still plenty...
...February 1929, Sir Joseph Duveen (who last winter became at last Lord Duveen) was in a tight spot. After eight years of preparation, Mme Andree Hahn of Paris and Kansas City sued him for $500,000. claiming that he had prevented her from selling a Leonardo da Vinci painting to the Kansas City Art Institute for $250,000. when he pronounced it only a graceless copy of the Louvre's La Belle Fenonni...