Word: trig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Canada's rich, pious and paunchy Premier Richard Bedford Bennett sped to Quebec as the trig little liner Duchess of Richmond steamed in from Liverpool. Aboard was the Prime Minister of Great Britain, James Ramsay MacDonald, and his Housekeeper-Daughter Ishbel, on a three-month Canadian vacation. Whisked off by Premier Bennett, silver-haired, 67-year-old Scot MacDonald was soon sailing across the Bay of Fundy, driving up to a tiny cottage in Digby for the rest which eye-strain has imposed on him. As Ishbel sent out for more vases to hold the flowers which Digby...
...tuberculosis (Finns being especially susceptible to this disease). Last week came the 70th birthday of a National Hero elected last February: President Pehr Evind Svinhufvud whom 4,000,000 Finns call Ukko Pekka ("Old Man Pehr''). Outside the little yellow Palace with its "palace guard" of two trig sentries, patriotic groups gathered one after another all day to warble...
...play is properly farcical, although Playwrights Edith Fitzgerald and Robert Riskin have occasionally blundered into trying to make it something more. Its progress is rendered exceedingly pleasant by Sylvia Sidney, who has long lashes and a figure, as the fraudulent heroine. Dorothy Sands is trig and smart as her young-seeming mother. When asked by a stranger if she knows her own daughter, she replies: "Certainly, we were girls together...