Word: tightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...didn't matter much which, and straightway thirty more would leap up on their chairs, some laughing, some weeping in an excess of patriotic zoal all shouting in fury. Soldiers walked about in gorgeous, gilt buttoned uniforms kicking children into the gutters. Women rode in the Bois in tight waists and hats which the world was unfortunately destined to remember three quarters of a century later. Ambassadors clicked polished heels and bowed low over polished finger nails. Workmen would look up through dirty shop windows and salute to a high wheeled gilt carriage with a muttered "Vive l'Imperatrice...
...Satan has of the Kingdom of Heaven. . . . We've got to quit voting for lodges and churches and the geography that runs along the Harlem River and has a connection with Europe. . . . The common people are like a mule, young and vigorous but chained to a post so tight it can't move. I'm for breaking that chain. . . . The zero hour of hard times will come in the winter...
...Peruvian voters chose by ballot between the Colonel and three other candidates, all civilians. While the vote was being counted gunmen in a speeding car riddled the residence of Candidate Sanchez Cerro with random bullets, killed nobody. Startled, but by no means unnerved, Colonel Sanchez Cerro received with a tight grin of satisfaction last week the news that he had been elected President of Peru by a majority...
...game started inauspicuously for the CRIMSON when their big center made a bad kick-off. Notwithstanding this opening break the Harvard eleven played a tight game of football and held the Big Green to short runs and passes. Both lines played well and smeared many of the plays before they developed. The backfield of the CRIMSON did rather mediocre work and only once made a show of brilliance, at the beginning of the second quarter when a sustained series of short passes netted 30 yards and a touchdown. The try for goal failed...
Deck chair gossips remarked that Mile Laval's complexion is as unusually dark as her father's; that she stains half her fingernails blood red; that she has a sports ensemble consisting of yellow crocodile shoes, a tip-tilted red hat, tight black woolen dress and Scotch plaid coat. "I send Mother a radiogram every day," confessed Josette, "to inform her of the state of Father's temper and health...