Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chairman Work of the Republican National Committee went a telegram from Representative William Walton Griest, aged "dean" of Pennsylvania Congressmen: "If possible bottle up tight William Allen White and all other hot air artists that may be hovering around national headquarters. Please try your utmost. They are a distinct liability...
...exchanges, in the shouts of bidders, the scurrying of page boys, the ringing of telephones, the rattle of tickers. When money is plentiful, easy, the world's marts are thunderous with the din of handling it, transmuting it, losing or winning it. But when money is scarce, tight, there is silence...
...buffoonery of their companions ... it is one of the laws of human drama that this should be so. ... The crowd likes nothing better than to see a half-wit get the better of a pompous intellectual. It restores confidence as it were." When he is in a tight fix, Mr. Interlocutor blandly and sonorously announces a rendition by our silver-voiced tenor, or an original specialty by our own little Mr. Tambo...
...Nash Motors Co. at Kenosha, Wis., also has been in merger discussions. But doughty President Charles W. Nash has been "sitting tight," saying nothing. Last week he let it be known that behind locked gates and doors his engineers are redesigning the Nash motor and body to improve speed and chic of present models...
...completing a rocket-drive airplane, the Grasimiecke ("Garden Warbler"). Only a moderate 125 m. p. h. would be attempted with this craft. Later airplanes would be built to rocket beyond the highest flights of motored airplanes, first with laboratory animals aboard-and plane-parachutes later with men in air-tight compartments. They calculated a speed of 1,000 kilometres per hour (625 m. p. h.) could be attained and maintained...