Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when there are new sports, vitamines, masseurs, and reducing medicine the old folks like to hearken back to their energetic youth when each man took his own exercise and did not watch some one else play. Yet while our Indian stalking ancestors may have been trim and athletic of necessity, old family albums show corporations as well as side whiskers and one wonders how they flourished in the rigorous life of the time. Can it be that men existed in that golden age who never pushed a pedal nor pulled an oar? Impossible...
...there are rumors that a more penetrating criticism, from the same source, is about to be let loose. The game of setting up little tin gods and clay-footed idols to knock over is not particularly dangerous, and it has a certain virtue in putting the small players in trim for larger struggles. To undergraduate onlookers,' the present batters at Yale and Dartmouth keep their proper proportions. But outsiders are more gullible; finding that the critics take themselves seriously, they are quick to swallow the scandal. And how seriously the critics do take themselves...
...bootlegger launches to come and carry its liquor to New York or Jersey. The crews of the rum ships do not trust the bootleggers; they are armed with .45 caliber automatics. The reason for this state of continual naval preparedness was divulged by the skipper of the Tuscarora, as trim a whiskey-running schooner as ever dumped her weekly 2,000 cases in a bootleg lighter. In a press interview the skipper pointed out that bootleggers, angry at the high prices charged for Scotch and rye, sometimes turn pirate, board a small ship and steal the alcoholic cargo. A raid...
...trim our broad sail as before...
...sites in Cambridge and the immediate vicinity have been considered for the projected group of buildings, suggested plans for which have been tentatively drawn up by Harrold F. Kellogg '06, a Boston architect. These plans call for several Colonial buildings, with simple red brick walls and stone or wood trim, the style depending for effect more on its proportion than on its ornamentation...