Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baltimore Sun, able cartoonist Edward Duffy composed a sooty drawing of a burlesque policeman twirling an enormous stick over the head of a small figure with a derby hat, enormous ears, tight little coat, baggy pants and suitcase shoes at a familiar angle. This figure, whose little bamboo cane was labelled "Will Hays," was tossing aside a bag of boodle and grinning up at the officer with wrynecked, Chaplinesque embarrassment. The cartoon's title was "The Gold Rush...
...Alpine resort, where they have been recuperating from previous official entertainment at Rome, Paris & Brussels (TIME, Jan. 23, Feb. 6). Last week as Amir Amanullah, ''The Light of the World," emerged again into the limelight he was gravely greeted by the solemn figure of President Hindenburg in tight broadcloth coat and high silk hat. Less formal was an immediately subsequent greeting administered by Socialist Prime Minister of Prussia Otto Braun, who violently shook the Amir's hand. Meanwhile Old Paul von Hindenburg presented a bunch of orchids with ponderous gallantry to Queen Thuraya...
Credit goes in part to the German-singers now at the Metropolitan, to Conductor Artur Bodanzky who holds tight reins over them all. There is Maria Jeritza who gave last week her most gracious performance of the season as Elizabeth (Tannhäuser), whose Elsa (Lohengrin) and Sieglinde (Walküre) are compelling flesh-and-blood women worthy of the music given them to sing. There is Karin Branzell, worthy successor to Schumann-Heink as Erda (Rheingold and Siegfried), Fricka (Walküre), Waltraute (Götterdämmerung), Brangaene ( Tristan), Baritone Friedrich Schorr vocally unequalled as Wolfram (Tannh...
...ahead as one crosses the Yard. If all is to be believed, the Road to Rome has its other terminus under the awning that covers the steps of Memorial Hall. "Fair as a star", but more than one will be shining March 2. Greta of the round arms and tight curls will be there. What if it be difficult beforehand to find the leading men, or afterward to learn who were the lucky players in company-with? For it is written: As a prom committee sideshows, so shall it reap...
...well off, maybe better with reading assignments, and that Radcliffe girls like to look that way. Further that a large majority of College Comic editors eventually commit suicide (an exaggeration, note by reviewer) to evade reading proof (grant the evasion N. B. R.), and that a predominance of tight wad stories took their inspiration not from Scotchmen, but from College Comic Treasurers. (The good dog hunts ....? N. B. R.) (Editor of the Crimson please pardon four dots. Tact compels me. You may cut it to three, but no less...