Word: trim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London, where he made his first success outside the U.S. 23 years ago, Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, trim, happy and 55, returned with his New Orleans-style trumpet. Louis had not been back since 1932, mostly because England and the U.S. mutually refused to admit foreign bands (TIME, March 26). This time he was welcomed on an exchange agreement. happily took his All-Stars into cavernous (capacity: 8,000) Empress Hall to play two shows a night for ten nights. The band was seated on a slowly revolving stage in the center of the arena, and for a full hour...
...summer's evening should check up on his checks. Check-mating the fashion scene is a wave of box-like designs. In checks with plaids, the flannel-finish jacket of extremely light weight, two-or three-button model, is being worn with slacks of tropical worsted, cut along very trim lines...
KING: How, madame-Russians? PRINCESS: Ay, in truth, my lord; trim gallants, full of courtship and of state. -Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost...
...demon of industry and the evils of an over-organized world. "Nowadays, there is an element of sadism in the very requirement that a man shall work. 'Now you shall feel it,' they say. 'Now you shall know what it feels like to break stones and trim flags.' " Each is lucidly articulate about his views. Old Road-Dust insists: "Everything is always what it is able to be and never otherwise . . . He who knows the world takes it as it is when it is at its blindest, not as it is when it is seeing most...
...best-run towns in the U.S. is Midland, Mich., a trim, 50-year-old company town (pop. 24,000) where 86% of the houses are owned by employees of Dow Chemical and Dow Corning. In the 1952 presidential election, Midland boasted the highest voter turnout (81%) of any similar-sized U.S. community...