Word: trim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blue-eyed, saber-trim soldier closed his home in Berkshire; then, in London, with the help of extra coupons from the Board of Trade, he bought all the extra clothes he would need. He called on Queen Mary, lunched with George VI and Queen Elizabeth, stood in the rain to review Canadian troops. He was honored at a Savoy dinner, saw a son through a siege of mumps. He said his formal farewell to Great Britain when, at a Guildhall ceremony, he was made a Freeman of the City of London...
Seated at the piano was a trim, severe-eyed, V-chinned brunette. She had majored in music at Brooklyn College, had taught piano, worked in a music publishing house, written a few unpublished songs. That day, hoping to get on at the Keynote, she had left a job demonstrating soups in a grocery. Although grimly serious and painfully shy, she bristled with ideas for musical-comedy numbers. Her name was Sylvia Fine...
...spry Dr. George B. McAuliffe, 81, a retired professor of otology who dabbles in the field of posture correction, voiced sinister warnings against the bust-flattening, underslung flapper figure which causes shifting of vital organs, general internal trouble. Dr. McAuliffe thinks American girls today are pretty good; their neat, trim figures, unhampered by unnecessary clothes, are the best nature has produced in this country. Let them stay that way, advised Dr. McAuliffe, and "let them dress as though it were always summertime...
...trim, black-haired Navy lieutenant named Lester R. Schulz strode into the room carrying a locked pouch. The President reached eagerly for the just decoded papers-the first 13 parts of the final Japanese reply to State Secretary Hull. Franklin Roosevelt read them through in ten minutes, waited for Hopkins to read and hand them back. Then the President said: "This means...
...President's press conference, newsmen were sure they noted a change in Harry Truman. For the first time in his 291 days in the White House, the even-voiced Missourian in the trim, double-breasted brown suit seemed eager to lash out at his critics...