Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public performance Iturbi merely clenched his baton a little tighter and with the simplest of gestures led the men on to do what he had taught them at rehearsal. But the music was so articulate, the Mozart so sparkling, the Rhenish Symphony of Schumann so gravely romantic, that in intermission the lobby was abuzz with the talk of this coming young conductor. The program went on with Debussy's La Mer, the Intermezzo from Granados' Goyescas, three dances from De Falla's Three-Cornered Hat. At the end the audience was on its feet cheering. The players...
...discord between Hitler and Göring is club-footed little Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, increasingly mighty as his Ministry of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment rivets its control ever tighter on Germany's press, radio, drama and cinema. Dr. Goebbels' scheme for getting rid of the Premier of Prussia is simply to abolish Prussia as a State. Last week General Göring, fighting for his Premier-hood, was able to force into one and only one Berlin newspaper a short account of a call he had just made on President von Hindenburg...
...concrete ranch houses, the 1,500 miles of fences and other equipment at $4,000,000 -a grand total of $18,590,000. So tremendous that it is practically an independent kingdom within the borders of Texas, the ranch was founded in 1851 by Captain Richard King, Seminole tighter and Rio Grande pilot. It has been ruled for the past half century by a dynasty of Klebergs: Robert I, who married the Captain's daughter, and Robert II. their reigning son. The Klebergs ruled but the Captain's widow, spunky little Henrietta King, kept the ownership...
...trusts and other large Allied stockholders have been trying to find out the nature of the company's securities portfolio, what part of its profits ($11,400,000 last year) came from manufacturing and what part from stockmarket operations. Urbane but distant, President Weber wrapped himself a little tighter in his traditional cloak of mystery, refused to supply the information...
...what motherhood is for a woman!" Seriously worried, Adolf Hitler summoned his puppet Reichstag to hear a great speech on Germany's foreign situation. Should he back down on rearmament he would lose face in Germany. Should he continue to roar he would draw the European ring tighter around him. Closer together than they had been since the War. hoping Hitler would not move brashly toward another war, France, Brit- ain and Italy waited...