Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pittsburgh officials, frightened at the appearance of rabies in their district, have devised an efficient method of killing stray dogs. Three motorized wagons patrol the streets. Each wagon has an air-tight box into which the poisonous exhaust gases of the motor enter. Whenever the dog-catcher on the driver's seat sights an unmuzzled dog unattended by a human, he tries to snare it. If he does catch the dog, he heaves it into the suffocating box and soon the live dog is a dead...
...Crystal loosened my tight little moral cloak to an unshackling wind and pinned it back with something as hard and bright and impersonal as a star...
Crimson Fielding Tight...
...garnet necklace with bracelets to match, on which bidding started at $25. Total sales reached $402,800. A single 48-carat oval diamond brought $57,000. The major "Crown Jewels" of the Tsars (TIME, Dec. 27) still remain, of course, in Russia, guarded day and night by soldiers in tight uniforms buttoning up the back and without cuffs or pockets...
...Trades Union Hall, Moscow, a huge blood-red disc above the stage, bearing the Hammer and Sickle, emblems of Soviet Russia, was hung. A vast crowd surged- peasants in blouses, urban workers in tight, shoddy store clothes. They had come to hear the first public speech in four months by Russia's greatest orator, famed Leon Trotzky. All knew that M. Trotzky had been silent perforce, following the crushing of his section of the Communist party by Dictator Josef Stalin (TIME, Oct. 25). When Comrade Trotzky slipped upon the stage last week, pale, wiry, magnetic, there was stamping, applause...