Word: trim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the Gothic pile of Parliament's World War I Victory Tower, two V.C.s met. Both were there to sell Victory Bonds for World War II. They shook hands, parted. One was trim, khakied Major Paul Triquet, who won the Victoria Cross early this year before Ortona (TIME, March 20). The other was little Philip Konowal, whose glory had been forgotten by almost everybody but himself...
...January and Mr. Ex (by Zoe Akins; produced by Richard Myers) forfeits the advantage of an amusing situation by forgetting that a situation is not a play. An immensely rich, three-times-married addlepate with Communist leanings (Billie Burke) decides to get in trim for the Revolution by practicing poverty in advance. She rents a $40-a-month house in a New England town, discovers that her widowed landlord (Frank Craven) is a former rock-ribbed Republican President...
Said Wendell Willkie at Ripon : the Republican party first came into power because in the Whig party before it "men sought to trim and hedge rather than to face the dangers, or talked trivialities, remaining silent on the basic issues, hoping thereby to avoid offending divergent elements. ... A certain cynicism characterized the politics of the day - a cynicism which has had its parallel in our own time...
...Wife. Trim, sensitive Mrs. Eleanor Thompson answered the long-distance phone in Pittsburgh. A New York Daily Newsman told her about her husband's progeny. She exclaimed: "Can you imagine! Quadruplets! That never happened in his family. Not even twins." No, she would not give Bill a divorce. Said her priest: "There is no way the marriage can be broken under the laws of the Church." Said her father: "Let him sweat...
...this bloody, stubborn Italian front, the biggest continuing battlefield for U.S. and British soldiers, the immediate responsibility for the Allied command rested with slim, trim, incisive General Sir Harold R.L.G. Alexander. Ultimate responsibility rested with another soldier whom the world knew more as a military name than a personality: huge, burly, genial General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, Supreme Allied Commander in Chief in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations...