Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cook declared that Premier Baldwin had "betrayed" the miners; and that in retaliation the miners would refuse to testify before the royal commission now investigating the coal situation, and would hold a special meeting on Oct. 9 "to consider the situation." Premier Baldwin sat tight. By some his action in backing the operators was considered "solidly determined," by other "inadept...
...seven years he has sat serenely on the international powder box. A snapping-jawed, tight-lipped man, he has scared away the rascals. A jovial good fellow with pockets full of laughs, he has out-joked the wily villain. A great seaman, he has understood the fighting...
...keep her? He buys Charm, 412 pages for $8.27, reads the last chapter, on "Sex Appeal". A very adequate and pretty plot, this, for a musical comedy-it offers neat openings for such songs as That snug gle-up-and-hug-store, That hold me tight and- mug-store- That clove-kissing, licoricing, Drug-store...
From Brigadier General Fechet, Chief of the Army Air Service, who had also observed the test from the air, came not even a tight-lipped comment. He kept silent...
...between Peru and Chile, called Tacna-Arica, which both countries claim and nobody really owns pending a plebiscite ordered by President Coolidge as arbitrator. If there is any man who really rules the little strip it is General John J. Pershing, President of the Plebiscite Commission, who is sitting tight in the little town of Arica...