Word: tight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Performance is even more important to a circus than novelty and this year John Ringling has banked more heavily on it than ever. There are no new major performers. But Con Colleano, the only man on earth who can turn a front somersault and land upright on a tight wire without cutting himself in two, is as exciting as ever, though he did miss it four times and have to give up at the first matinee. In the hush that falls before his act, the crackle of a peanut shell shakes the air like a splintered plank. Asked what...
...seven years, while a series of revolutions have exploded and fizzled out beneath him, Dictator-President Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona has sat tight in the saddle of the restless Republic of Portugal. While the world was paying little attention last week, and with Dictator Carmona's hand still on the reins, Portugal took an important step. Black-hatted townsfolk and barefooted mountaineers trooped to the polls to approve a proposed new Constitution for Portugal, providing for the election of the President by popular vote instead of by Parliament. It was the first time in five years that...
Hundreds of people milled before the closed doors of a big bank in the fourth city of the land one morning last week. It looked like a run. But practically every bank in the city had been shut tight for six long weeks and this crowd was waiting for the doors to open, not to demand their money but to pour checks & cash into National Bank of Detroit...
Sweepings is worthwhile for Lionel Barrymore's full-length portrait of a tight-lipped tycoon and for a smaller but equally perfect study by Gregory Ratoff of the tycoon's jealous but sympathetic underling. Husband of Eugenie Leontovich, a well-known actress in Moscow before the War who acted in Manhattan choruses until Grand Hotel made her famous, Gregory Ratoff's success in the U. S. came a little later than his wife's but with equal suddenness. He was the producer in Once in a Lifetime; his appalling Russo-Semitic accent was what brought...
...outdoors in the rain, then announced that no announcements would be made. To get a few crumbs of information newshawks had to waylay bankers going & coming from Clearing House meetings. Little dared bankers say, for the right to issue statements belonged to the head of the Clearing House, tight-lipped Mortimer Norton Buckner...