Word: trim
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brown and trim are the doorsteps of Albany's patrician houses. Brown and trim are the minds of the Dutchmen who live along State Street, Chestnut Street, Washington Avenue. They look back over 300 years of unbroken tradition to Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, first of the patroons to sail across the ocean and up the Hudson to the trading post of Fort Orange...
Albany's Dutchmen are leisured: they have no need of tabloids. They are retiring and shun society columns. Screaming headlines are monstrosities no less offensive than the maunderings of Dorothy Dix. Most newspapers would flutter uncomfortably on their trim, brown doorsteps...
Representing the Nominee's family, besides plumply placid Mrs. Smith, is the Nominee's eldest daughter, trim, slim Mrs. Emily Smith Warner. At El Reno, Okla., last week, she substituted for him when Governor Johnston and a welcoming party boarded the Smith Special at 8 a. m. "My father was up very late preparing for his speech tonight," she said. "I know you will excuse him. We thought it best not to wake him early...
...Good offices resemble those of any orosperous corporation−walnut furniture and woodwork, glass partitions, trim stenographers, pictures of the company's products−Hoover , Curtis, Coolidge, Dawes, McKinley, Taft, Roosevelt, Mrs. Hoover, Mrs. Coolidge, James William Good. ... As in most G. O. P. offices this year, there is no picture of Product Harding. ... A telegraph instrument chatters with nervous importance down the hall. There are private wires, telephone as well as telegraph, to both Washington and New York. . . . Throngs of people, some important, some trying to look important, "confer" in standing groups of two, three, four. , . . Throngs...
...suspended sentence because of Mrs. Knapp's "physical and mental suffering, her exposure, disgrace and complete ruin." But 30 days of gaol she had to serve. She was Syracuse University's Dean of Home Economics after leaving, office and until exposed. She went to prison in a trim navy-blue dress and tan felt hat, matronly, greyhaired, self-possessed, "disgraced," "ruined...