Word: trim
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your publication of Jan. 14, in connection with the endurance flight, you report the message "Only Elijah has gone farther and longer than the Question Mark," and Mr. Davison's answer: "Good. Let's trim Elijah." You cite the feeding of Elijah by the ravens, and the prophet's ascension. Both are suggestive, and I shall not argue as to what the first sender had in mind. To me it suggested Elijah's flight from the queen when, fed by an angel he went forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount...
...five years Helen McLaughlin, the child who screamed, skipped about on crutches. Two years ago her father bought her an artificial leg. The artificial leg has to be replaced every year with a new one; an annual operation must be performed to trim the growing bone. The financial burden obviously should have rested on a party other than the child or her father, one John J. McLaughlin, plumber and father of five other children. To recover past expense and to assure his daughter of future care, Plumber McLaughlin brought suit. Supreme Court Justice James Church Cropsey found against the Audley...
Lady Dedlock. It is hard to make plays out of Dickens. Nonetheless, famed Margaret Anglin thought quite correctly that Bleak House contained the material for a drama and she ordered Paul Kester to trim it into shape. This he tried hard to do; and Actress Anglin played his piece in the provinces, gradually improving it. Last week she thought it was fit for Broadway, and played it there...
Frederick Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation, received a telegram: "Only Elijah has gone farther and longer than the Question Mark (see p. 24)." Retelegraphed Mr. Davison: "Good. Let's trim Elijah...
...crew could not be daunted, even though motors should strain and fouled spark plugs almost force a landing. "Only Elijah," It has been opportunely stated, "has gone farther and longer than the Question Mark." And in commenting upon this, a secretary of aviation has added, "Good, let's trim Elijah...