Word: tighten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should like to see more English plays here, more American plays in London... There will be disappointments, of course... The average New Yorker does not go to the theatre in exactly the same state of mind as the average London citizen. The former has a weakness for plays that tighten and then jangle his nerves. Our London audiences like to be gently moved, to melt into the rose-tinted twilight of the Haymarket or Wyndham's, because of some fairy-tale nonsense." Thus putting his finger on the reason many an English play fails in New York, British Playwright Priestley...
Three days later in Baton Rouge something very serious happened to Huey Long. The seventh special session of Louisiana's Legislature was just getting down to the business of rubberstamping 39 bills devised by the Senator to tighten his one-man dictatorship over the State. On the floor there had been the customary brawling and cursing as the "Kingfish" strutted up & down the aisle giving orders to his henchmen. As the Legislature adjourned for the night, Senator Long marched out of the chamber and started down the corridor to Governor Allen's office, flanked, as always...
Because charities fear that the President's proposals for higher taxes on wealth will make philanthropists tighten their purse strings, charitarians descended on Congress with a counter proposition: let gifts to charity by corporations be specifically exempted from income tax. like charity gifts made by individuals. When newshawks put the proposition...
...Moscow last week the Widow Lenin put in her 2? worth against Josef Stalin's current drive to reduce the Russian divorce rate and inculcate a few bourgeois virtues among Soviet mates. Russians had heard rumors, and foreign correspondents had obtained confirmation, that the Dictator will soon drastically tighten up proverbially loose Bolshevik divorce laws. In a panic to get in under the wire, every Moscow mate who has recently thought of divorce was last week jamming the official bureaus, called "Zags," and they had the entire sympathy of the Widow Lenin...
...boats splashed away from the start and then settled down to keep within striking distance of Washington, making the early pace. One mile down the river, Washington was still leading, with Syracuse and Navy close behind when the race began to tighten. First Cornell, then California began to creep up on the leaders. At the Railroad Bridge, three miles from the start, Syracuse dropped back. Cornell and California, passing Washington, were fighting each other for the lead. The fight went on down the last mile of the river, level and murky in a late afternoon drizzle. Twenty-five strokes from...