Word: trim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Precisely at nine o'clock every morning a trim but stooped figure enters the Wigglesworth Gate and proceeds towards the west end of the Yard. Now and then the stroller stops to examine a shrub or gaze speculatively at one of the old buildings, and passers-by can detect bits of conversation that pass between the stroller and some invisible colleague. Indeed, at certain points, the figure seems to stop and engage in lengthy discourse with himself, ending abruptly with a nod of decision and a hurried resumption of his path toward Lehman Hall. The early morning boulevardier is Aldrich...
...acts of "Sailor Beware," this season, turns up here as a two-bit Burlesque gagster, and is an extremely funny little man. William Mendrek and Ruth Homond, whose names appear on these pages from time to time, do their usually adequate job. And for purely local interest-besides some trim chorines who can't get telephones either-is Joe Battaglia '25, lisping an occasional word but more often playing a very neat brothel-piano background...
...Fancy Trim. In Baton Rouge, La., a bill was introduced in the Louisiana House of Representatives fixing a 25? ceiling on haircuts for bald...
...Costa Rica, inflation and corruption had rumpled traditional democracy. Conflict with the coffee barons over social legislation had fanned the opposition. Result: just enough revolutionary gunplay (one dead, two wounded) to keep the troops in trim. If the 50,000-odd Nicaraguans now living in Costa Rica had joined last week's revolt, it would not have been comic opera...
...National Committee decided the time had come for national expansion; requests for information were coming in from potential chapters in other U.S. cities. This summer 61-year-old Chaplain Nesbitt plans to start things moving in Washington, D.C., Wilmington and Cape Cod while on "vacation" from his trim, tree-shaded St. Luke's Church in The Bronx. Alive to the perils of bigotry, Irish-Methodist Nesbitt unfailingly invites Catholics to St. George organization meetings, works in close collaboration with the Catholic police chaplain. Nevertheless, he earnestly says: "The way to win a man or a woman-or a church...