Word: trim
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aesop's Fable cartoon (which is our favorite form of movie) to the lady who achieved incredible slow-motion acrobatic tricks with her strong-arm partner, this bill kept us thoroughly entertained. Truly, the acrobatic lady, we think, is truly fortunate in having chosen a profession which keeps in trim her beautiful figure. The trick bicycle riders who opened the show broke the ground very nicely for King and Beatty, who did a Bullard and Cogan at the piano, and after that Bird Millman, the Little Queen of the Wire, performed her clothes-line classic, throwing in slow-movies...
...Business School buildings will be built of dark red brick with white trim, and cornices and gables similar to the original Harvard buildings, of which the most, famous is Massachusetts Hall. They will, of course, be of first-class fire proof construction which, unfortunately, many of the older buildings are not, as the recent fire in the oldest of them has proved...
Moralists have interpreted the Haskell episode two ways. One school of critics compares him to former Westerners who have "gone into the Street" to trim it, and found that the Wall Street professionals knew a thing or two themselves. The other school writes heart-interest articles about Mr. Haskell's childhood days at his mother's knee, and tearfully declares: "Wall Street...
...uncle in West Newton. We shall start massages to loosen up the muscles in his arm and he will be all right in a short time. However, I doubt very much whether he will be able to play any more hockey this year, though he should be in trim for football in the fall...
...that Mr. Villard has been so impressed with the trees that he has, as yet, been unable to view the whole forest. Certainly it is hard to see how there can be much of a fight when no nation in Europe except France and Russia is in good fighting trim. But there have come enough facts from Europe to make it certain that Germany is already muttering about the next war, and France is frantically trying to stop it by screwing the lid ever tighter England has shown that it will not go with France under the latter's present...