Word: trim
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months ago Mrs. Fleming, with her sister and brother-in-law, moved into the trim white house next to Alloway's town hall. Soon word went around that the newcomers were not pure white. Righteous citizens gathered in front of the house, yelled imprecations, threw stones wrapped in paper saying "Get out!" Children tagged after Mrs. Fleming jeering, "Nigger woman! Nigger woman...
Spectators of the Senate tariff war last week gasped with surprise at the sight of a trim new regiment marching briskly and in close order out of the hard-harried Republican redoubts. From the sidelines few were the faces recognized in this detachment of fresh troops as it deployed and in one bold stroke captured the tariff battlefield under sharp Democratic fire...
...valor surged, however, in the breast of the Dictator's trim aide-de-camp, Victor Larenas. Careless of spoiling his gaudy green uniform, he rushed up to amateur assassin Olachea, grasped him by the neck, flung him to the ground...
...robins-egg Rolls-Royce stands at stately attention; for whom a footman leaps from the box; for whom the train will back up if necessary to set this important passenger down at the precise spot he wishes. Plump and neat, he trots between Rolls-Royce and train on trim little trotters...
...Episcopalian ministers should be pensioned and famed Bishop William Lawrence of Massachusetts, stepping in where others had failed, raised $9,000,000. Bishop Lawrence's aide in that effort, then secretary, now executive vice president of the Pension Fund of the Protestant Episcopal Church, was and is substantial, trim-trotting Monell Sayre...