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...attorney a handsome law practice if he would settle in Mistuh Crump's town. All the lawyer had to promise in return was to develop an intelligent, invigorating opposition to the all-powerful Crump political organization. Nothing came of this ingenious idea for keeping the Crumpets in fighting trim, so Ed Crump had to go on putting up with Tom Collier...
...horizon this week although he did lose to Army the last time he wrestled. He will be grappling in his proper weight this time, 175, and his often brilliant wrestling form should tell considerably in the final result. In addition to this, Tudor Gardiner, back in wrestling trim, will be in the unlimited weight, which should bolster that position a great deal though it will have to go far to match the weight as Chief Boston defended it last year...
Several more people came down. Then somebody shouted: "Trim the boat." We all echoed his words but nobody did anything. And then in a desperate voice the same person shouted: "Cast off, for God's sake, she's going...
...frail. But the first time a woman is frail, she should be somewhat nice methinks, for then or never is the time to make her Fortune.") U. S. radio listeners found its gangster Captain Macheath, his moll Polly Peacham, and its other ballad-singing jailbirds as fetching as a trim ankle, its famed tunes as neat as a whistle. Sample...
...Tennessean. To Chicago he went last week with figures in his fist and proceeded to belabor the short-winded old Smoot-Hawley protective tariff scheme, which since 1930 (when it threw up the highest international trade barriers in U. S. history) has lost some of its fighting trim...