Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Next it straddles by increasing the postal rates, which affect all classes. It resorts to such highly experimental measures as trying to see whether the Government can step in and seize one-third of every estate-a sheer impossibility where the "estate" is literally in the stocking of a tight-fisted French peasant family. Finally it proposes to save 150% more in Government expenditures than the experts of M. Doumer believe possible...
Last week, however, a youth whose face shone clean and pleasant beneath his black skullcap, said something just as Joe was opening the cash-drawer to "oblige" him. The youth said: "I'm John D, Rockefeller III. I. . . ." Sock! went the cash-drawer, tight shut. Joe wiped a glass on his spotted apron. The freshman stammered, expostulated. Finally Joe spoke. "Nutting doing," he said around his cigar-stub. "A guy worked dat on me last year...
...prying reporter saw, her U. S. friends well knew that there came forth: a Paris wardrobe (all in petite sizes) impeccable to the finest pinpoint; skins of wild Colorado animals (to establish beyond peradventure her origin); riding habits (she is an expert horsewoman) ; perhaps a ravishing orange skin-tight swimming costume (it was seen many a time last summer in the tank of the Wardman Park Hotel, Washington...
...learns to drink, spoon and wench. His mind takes the shape of a pinchbeck, free-lunch conquistador's. He borrows a car, skids into a tight situation, scurries from town like a rodent...
...likes baseball, sits at the ringside at nearly all good prize fights, and is a confirmed first-nighter at the theatre, it is hardly likely that any of these specialties got him a job. Perhaps his neat way of dressing contributed. He is a natty dresser, likes rather a tight fit in his clothes, favors a green fabric with a white stripe, is given to wearing patent-leather shoes...