Word: tights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that it stretched and flapped along the body of the car. Then the wind tangled its tassels in the spokes of a wheel. Abruptly and terribly the dancer who had carried a thousand light banners lay in the dust of a summer road, completely still, a red scarf pulled tight around her neck...
...went back afterwards looking for the prima donna, found her in her stocking feet, just not able to get back into her tight new shoes. Thus Mrs. Long found a new pupil; and the career was launched...
...appears as a long man shrouded in a tight-fitting overcoat. At one time, he affected iron hats, or derbies, under which his benevolent spectacles gave an effect of incongruity. Of late, he has reverted to soft hats, less like the headgear of the proverbial hotel detectives...
...precocious age of 16; called it Violanta after his heroine, a lovely enough Venetian lady who hated and lusted and loved and died in such swift turn as to gray the hair of any onlooker. Jeritza played it for all there was there, took every phrase, every mood, tight between her teeth, shook them hard, tried to make them answer back, got small return...
...tight defense of the Crimson fullbacks was the outstanding feature of the game...