Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where the handclasp's a little stronger, Out where the smile dwells a little longer, That's where the West begins; Out where the sun is a little brighter, Where the snows that fall are a trifle whiter, Where the bonds of home are a wee bit tighter, That's where the West begins...
...well understand that I am for Roosevelt, and I stick all the tighter to him when I discover that the Press is coloring the news against him, apparently for their own purposes...
...decree efforts were featured last week by earmarking two billion francs ($132,500,000) to be spent with all speed on employment-creating public works, half by the national Government and the other half by the 86 French prefectures. Obviously, the moment was opportune for Premier Laval to pull tighter the reins by which Paris controls France. For the first time in history all prefects were summoned to the Capital. Most made their trip in their official limousines and gleaming, long-snouted Renaults roared in over all the main roads of France...
...bank will open tomorrow at noon." But the bank did not open the next day, nor the next nor the next. No one could explain why it had closed, least of all its employes. Finally on complaint of some annoyed customers who wanted their money, French officials closed it tighter than ever by sealing the vaults. Apparently the only person who could solve the mystery was the bank's founder, principal owner and undisputed boss, Bertrand Coles Neidecker, a U. S. citizen...
...Hopeful that a binding knot of sentiment was tied between the Reichswehr and himself recently when every officer and soldier was made to swear personal loyalty to him, Realmleader Hitler sought to tug this knot tighter last week by announcing that he will exercise his powers of pardon exclusively in favor of members of the Reichswehr...