Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hello Sucker! Pin back your ears and get a load of the next week's news: Sex, murder, sin, off and on will make you grab those straps on the 8:20 subway tighter and tighter. We aim to thrill, flatter, and admire, so cluster around with the money wide, high, and handsome...
...hustled the wounded Powell from his hospital bed, took him to a bridge outside the city, tied a rope around his neck, pushed him off. The dark shape at the rope's end did not stop squirming and groaning. So the rope was hauled up and tied shorter, tighter. This time there was a solid jerk and a muffled snap as the body dropped. The dead thing dangled there all night...
...need not be frightened by this apparent threat. . . . The European challenge is essentially one to American brains. Our . . . chemists must redouble their zeal. . . . Our chemical industry really has no more reason to fear Europe than has our steel industry, always provided that we are ready to draw our belts tighter and go into the competitive struggle with all that we have to give...
...Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary: "My penchant for a haughty monocle having been internationally remarked, I was welcomed to. Glasgow University last week by 5,000 students all be-monocled. Undismayed, I only 'screwed' my monocle the tighter into its eye socket, and was installed, amid acclaim as Lord Rector of Glasgow University. I am said to be one of the few Englishmen who can perform the 'impossible' feat of tossing my monocle into the air with thumb and finger and catching it again with my right eye socket...
...pressed the receiver tighter and tighter to her ear, Helen Park was more and more mystified. Some one was telling her she had to go to California the next week ... by airplane . . . stopping overnight in Cleveland, Chicago, Omaha, Wichita, Cheyenne, Salt Lake City ... all expenses paid . . . $50 spending money . . . See America First . . . glorious . . . winner . . . congratulations . . . 12,000 contestants . . . and a return ticket . . . who? . . . Cove? Kove? GOVE, Gove, GOVE? Lydia Pinkham? ... At last Helen Park remembered. She had seen a notice that, for the best 250-word letter by a New England college student or graduate telling...