Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moral than the eye." - ED. Favors Giants Sirs: I quote from TIME, April 15. "Experts everywhere predict that the Cubs will sweep through the National League." Certainly TIME'S baseball fans will agree that newspapers and experts all over the country (with the exception of Chicago) predict a tight race between the Giants and the Cubs- not a clean sweep for the latter. A list of these experts includes non-partisan baseball men and prominent sports writers. Betting odds as the season opens favor the Giants slightly. . . . W. J. LODGE Westfield...
...special act empowering Governor Trumbull to issue special complimentary licenses to his prospective son-in-law's father or any other distinguished guest who may drop into the State. With Citizen Coolidge in the news appeared a new figure-John Brukowski, 22, dark of hair and eye, tight of lip. For several years John drove a car for Miss Ruth Cooper of Smith College's English Department. Miss Cooper went to Europe. John was jobless when Citizen Coolidge returned to Northampton last month. Citizen Coolidge hired him as chauffeur and general handy man at $20 per week...
...diplomatic corps performs socially in a tight little world of its own. The hostesses strive hardest to bring to their dinner tables the diplomats: Belgium's Prince de Ligne, Canada's Vincent Massey, England's Sir Esme Howard, Cuba's Señor Ferrara, Germany's Von Prittwitz und Gaffron, Hungary's Count Szechenyi, France's Paul Claudel. Less smart, but kept quite busy, are Austria's Prochnik, Italy's de Martino, Japan's Debuchi,* Mexico's Telles, Spain's Padilla y Bell. After them, courted by hostesses...
Without The Little French Girl's taut loveliness, without the strange fascination of The Old Countess, Dark Hester is acute portrayal of delicately balanced human relationships, done into tight infallible prose...
Saturday's fray was marked by the air-tight playing of both teams. In the first half they battled on nearly even terms, but in the second period Falcon Club managed to pierce their opponents' defense to score the winning goals...