Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Albee vaudeville enterprise was swinging in a great, open parabola. It had only theatres and actors. But it was not a closed corporate entity, such as is currently found most profitable. Then Keith-Albee merged with the Orpheum circuit of vaudeville-cinema houses. That made KAO, which soon had tight alliance with Pathe Exchange (cinema producers) very potent. The eccentric amusement curve was closing toward an ellipse. Joseph P. Kennedy (TIME, May 28) closed it by becoming K-A-O's chairman. He was already chairman of Film Booking Offices, cinema distributors and theatre managers. This was an alliance...
...Made Women (Leatrice Joy)-Tight and loose ladies, a jealous husband, a pleasant rake...
...Democratic Party, as exemplified by its Presidential Nominee Alfred Emanuel Smith, has been christened "Diamond Lil" by the New York American (Hearst daily). A series of political cartoons† depicts her as part donkey, part woman, with big pearls around her neck, with tight-fitting, scanty black dress. She usually goes riding in an automobile with a tiger flunky and a chauffeur labelled RASKOB. Some days ago, Diamond Lil had an accident, an explosion caused by the Maine election. Her automobile was blown to smithereens. The story beneath the cartoon told...
...Murphy and Dube)--You will learn to distinguish between them. Dube can get you out of a tight hole...
...here is the strangest thing. Do you know what finally cleared up my head? Those seven socks to the chin Dempsey hit me in the seventh round in Chicago. From that time on I never had that tight feeling in the head or that haziness before the eyes...