Word: trim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist poster showed a scene of bucolic bliss, bent old shepherds with kindly faces, happy children in smocks, trim gardens, bright cottages with cream walls and strawberry roofs. Overhead hovered menacingly a black, evil-eyed eagle. The bird was labeled "Trusts"; the Red politicos claimed that any resemblance to the American eagle was purely coincidental. Last week, after scrutinizing a row of garish, importunate posters of several parties at the Porte de St. Cloud, a man in a flimsy raincoat spat eloquently, "Ça me dégoûte" (That burns me up), he said...
With Dick Harlow's aggregation finally at midseason trim and with its first real test before them, head cheerleader and master of ceremonies Gerald S. Spar '48 looks forward to the biggest gown turnout the town has seen in many a year...
Even the booming retail trade received a warning from R. H. Macy's economist, Q. Forrest Walker, that it must trim its inventories against the day when public buying slackens and prices drop...
Last week they got the rest of the story: Syria's Gazelle Boy had been committed to a lunatic asylum, was there lapping water from a spring and placidly grazing on the lawn. With the story went a picture of the boy (see cut). He was a lean, trim youngster, apparently used to wearing clothes (his arms were tanned, his body fairly white), obviously in need of a haircut and a bath-and perhaps a new pressagent...
...Pauline, a friendly, attractive and aggressive American girl, is three-time winner of the U.S. Women's Singles. This week she will be out to win a fourth time-a feat that has been accomplished six times before.* Pauline is a trim 5 ft. 5; her hair is strawberry blonde, sun bleached and wiry. Principally because of her green eyes she seems to have a ready-to-pounce, feline quality. A straightening of her shoulders is a characteristic mannerism-a squaring away that seems to symbolize in an otherwise relaxed girl, a won't-be-beat spirit...