Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trim, uniformed figure in Kansas City's Union Station bustled a matronly commuter, bearing a pocketbook. "I just found this, conductor," explained she, thrusting the pocketbook into the impeccably gloved hands of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd...
...lest it be this fellow Quixote who works my imagination exceedingly. Lord, how real it all is! Soon I up to dress myself but find, it seems, only rusty old arms to wear--and these have been piled in the Tower for many years--but I to trim them and put them on but find a helmet is wanting; so I to use a morion and with certain papers paste together a beaver for it, but alas, quite undid all the morning's labor at the first test blow...
Crape-draped, a German special train was sent to the Swiss frontier last week. From the trim little railway station a plain coffin was carried by big-boned Nazis and heaved aboard. Surviving relatives of the corpse were ushered ceremoniously into the train, and with them rode a Guard of Honor as the special set out for their family home in Schwerin. At all large stations the funeral car stopped opposite a band and local Nazis sang the Horst...
...would make his way to the podium without attracting notice, Arturo Toscanini hurried on to Manhattan's Carnegie Hall stage last week to begin his eleventh season as conductor of the Philharmonic-Symphony. One glimpse of the trim, greying little Italian and every player in the orchestra, every member of the audience, rose respectfully. After one grave little bow Toscanini turned his back, rapped sharply for attention, commanded his men to play, his audience to listen...
After the War, Teetor went back to Hagerstown to rejoin the company founded by his uncle in 1900, in which young Ralph had balanced crankshafts after college. He married a small, trim schoolteacher named Nellie Van Antwerp. They now have a 5-year-old daughter...