Word: tight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Convict Harry Schneider (one of the last to see Maillefert alive in the box) "I said 'Jersey, it looks like they got you in a pretty tight spot.' He made a motion like he was going to hang himself. . . . Almost every day he said he was 'just as well off dead as to stay there and work...
That afternoon the State Court of Appeals had finally decided that New York City must elect a Mayor next month to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation under-fire last month of James John ("Jimmy") Walker. Hawk-beaked, tight-mouthed John Francis Curry, the Tammany boss whose leadership had cracked and broken earlier in the week at the state convention in Albany (see col. I), had hastily summoned a conference at the Plaza Hotel. In attendance were, among others, cherubic old John McCooey, the Brooklyn boss; hulking John Theofel, the Queens boss; George Washington Olvany...
...tight-fitting khaki and an officer's hard cap. His Majesty faced for a few brave hours the homage of mongrel natives in Massawa (where 112° F is not uncommon in October). Finally, with beads of perspiration standing out on his mustache, Italy's King repaired with relief to the special train that was to carry him up to Eritrea's high, cool plateau...
...well along in years then, nearly 70," recalled a thin, grey, tight-lipped little man on the witness stand in a Kansas City court last week. "The organization was my own creation. . . ." It was the story of Long-Bell Lumber Co. that Chairman Robert Alexander Long, now 81 was telling. He was fighting a receivership long desired by certain bondholders (TIME, Feb. I). One day in 1918, faced with exhaustion of their southern pine reserves, Chairman Long had gathered his executives about him to ponder liquidation or continuance of the lumber business. Willingly risking his personal fortune, he joined...
...Beebe made sure that the bathysphere was water-tight when he and Otis Barton, builder of the diving ball, took a deep ride last week. Dr. Beebe had descended 1,426 ft. two years ago, a record (TIME, June 23, 1930). Last week he broke this record...