Word: tightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first artists to appear on the stage, Ella Fitzgerald, "the first lady of swing," brought forth ringing applause from every one, when she sang "Hold Tight" and "It Ain't What You Do, It's The Way What...
...other courses, among them Physics C and Biology D, have comparable marking systems; but the rest, though they may shout to the skies that they have complete coordination among their sections, can give no air-tight proof of fact. They can only refer vaguely to the "common sense" of their instructors. True, the common sense of a great many staffs is extremely good, but other courses have failed utterly to bring any order or continuity out of the various theories and marking systems of their section...
...three tailies for the Stahleymen were made by Jess Willard, Gordon Halstead, and Pete Zouck in a game which turned into a tight defensive battle...
...Hold Tight was originally conjured up in Harlem's "Congo" district where a black and elemental breed of cats drink cheap King Kong liquor, puff reefers and shout a frank and sexy jive talk all their own. Jewish Swingsters Larry Kent and Jerry Brandow joined with Negro Swingsters Willie Spotswood, Ed Robinson and Leonard Ware in publishing it last January through Exclusive Publications, Inc. under the group names Kent Brandow and Robinson Ware Spotswood. Soon it was being innocently squalled all over the land...
...sheet music Hold Tight sold 100,000 copies, in orchestrations 10,000. The Andrews Sisters' recording sold 150,000, 20,000 more than their Bei Mir Bist Du Schön for same period. It reached fourth place in the Hit Parade. This week, just as the radio got wise, the Fishery Council New York and Middle-Atlantic Area Inc. decided to adopt Hold Tight as its theme song...