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Word: trig (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tour through English factory towns is an august, frock-coated, slant-eyed Trade Delegation from the rich Chinese province of Manchuria. Last week while visiting the extensive Longbridge Works at Birmingham, where Sir Herbert Austin turns out his trig, seven h. p. "Baby Austins" in thousands, Chairman T. Y. Wang of the Delegation said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Baby Dragons | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

Stationed in the trig military centre of Andover, Hampshire, are some of His Majesty's most gallant officers and whole regiments of British Tommies who have a cocky, engaging eye for women. Last week these connoisseurs were utterly flabbergasted when they learned that Captain Leslie Ivor Victor Gauntlett Slight Barker, D. S. O., who was universally regarded in Andover as "a gentleman, and by gad a sportsman, Sir!" is in fact a transvestite? one of the most remarkable of modern times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Transvestite | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...Waistlines are rising to the normal waist, are frequently accentuated by belts. 3) Skirts have fallen irretrievably, with several Patou street models a full six inches below knee length, and many evening gowns with demi-trains. 4) Evening bodices are slimmer, with decolletage lower behind, higher in front. 5) Trig jackets-many reversible-are especially smart for city and sports. 6) Summer fabrics, very simple for day wear, with a startling revival of bright ginghams and even calicos. 7) Hats are even smaller and sleeker, many brimless and exposing the forehead. 8) Colors, brighter, with contrasting red and black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mode 1929 | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...night that Nominee Smith denounced Whispering at Oklahoma City, Nominee Smith's slim, trig, glib little lieutenant, Mayor James John Walker of New York City, motored under the Hudson River to Newark, N. J. From the platform occupied four nights earlier by Nominee Hoover, came a speech in which Mayor Walker incorporated the following remarks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Walker | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...Mason and an elder of a dominant U. S. church (Presbyterian) ; the man who reigns magisterially over a dominant U. S. industry (cinema). Mr. Hays helped open a "social club" for the cinema trade in Manhattan last week. New York's Mayor, trig, glib James John Walker, was also present. In the course of his speech, Mr. Hays indicated Mayor Walker, grew intense and said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Personification | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

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