Word: tight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lapse of a year has brought disillusionment with it," Brailford declares, ". . .all this paralyzed enterprise, lowered demand end lessened buying power." Everyone is sitting tight and the working class is showing increasing irritation. Brailsford feels that these in control will continue to wait, letting things contract until the bottom is reached and all public debts have been completely reduced. Then at the World Economic Conference, they hope "to engineer a scheme of international inflation." Meanwhile wages drop lower and conditions become worse...
...evening on to the stage of a Manhattan theatre and proceeded to dance as he had danced many times in the streets and cafés of Spain. There was nothing ingratiating about Escudero's performance that evening. He strutted about like a cock in smart, skin-tight costumes which Artist Pablo Picasso had designed for him. He did amazing footwork to a dozen complicated rhythms. He conversed with his castanets, brutally, insolently, insinuatingly. He swelled out his chest and shot meaningful glances at his partners, Carmela and Carmita. He clucked with his tongue, sniffed with his nose, even...
Carry Nation (by Frank McGrath; Theatre Unit, Inc., producer). If tight-faced, quixotic little Carry Nation was not insane, according to the McGrath play which claims to be "substantially true," she was close as a toucher to it. Her father was religiously fanatical, had Carry baptized in ice-cold water at the age of 11. The result of her ducking brought on "intestinal consumption" which plagued her all her life. Carry's mother suffered the delusion that she was Queen Victoria; Carry's only child died in an asylum. Carry's mental inheritance took the form...
...Fatherland became a Republic in 1919. King George, who hides his German light under a bushel and has changed his name to Windsor, was not there. Neither were any of his sons. But His Majesty's first cousin, Prince Arthur of Connaught, strode up the aisle in the tight scarlet of a British guardsman. Deposed Kaiser Wilhelm was represented by his grandson Prince Wilhelm, in field grey topped by a steel helmet. Two most exalted shadows came in person. They were mystic, crystal-gazing Ferdinand, a Coburg who abdicated as Tsar of Bulgaria in favor...
Another convict-I asked Courson, 'Ain't that chain too tight?' Higginbotham said, 'That chain ain't tight enough. He can still drink water...