Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...task to borrow money from reluctant bankers ... to labor with Congressional committees in the formulation of financial legislation; to devise remedial measures for a deranged cu rency; to make forecasts and prepare estimates in days when financial responsibility was diffused ... to trim the sails of fiscal policy to political winds; to market the huge loans which constituted the chief reliance of an improvident Gov ernment." For all the years between them those words about Secretary Chase may well have a familiar ring to Secretary Morgenthau...
Field's is not a store to trim its sails to every wind of circumstance. It regards itself as an Institution. The shades on its great plate glass windows are drawn on the Sabbath and no advertising for the main Field store is ever seen in a Sunday newspaper. Beer is served only in the Men's Grill; hard liquor, in no Field restaurant at all. And for the benefit of Gold Coasters, whether or not they are in a buying mood, Field maintains an inventory of every kind of expensive thing...
...last week 400 Annapolis midshipmen, trim in white, marched off their cruise ships Wyoming and Arkansas, through the streets of Rome, past helmeted Swiss Guards and into the Vatican. In the long, gilded Hall of the Consistory where His Holiness the Pope is accustomed to receive his Cardinals, they knelt on glistening marble. Pius XI mounted his throne to greet them, made a little speech about the sea as a character-builder, passed up & down the hall to confer his blessing. With that His Holiness thought the audience was over. Not so Midshipman Henry L. ("Hank") Muller of Leonia...
...scholarship and conduct. At the end his class standing can be computed with an adding machine. Each academy releases to the Press a complete list of its graduating class, with ranking. West Point hands out its diplomas in that order. As Cadet Richardson of Gibson Island, Md., trim, erect, redhaired, marched forward his classmates jumped up, whooped, hallooed, tossed their caps in the air, heartily thwacked his back as he returned. He was, for the day, the scapegoat on whom all their sins were piled. They knew, too, that "Goat" Richardson had hung on for his commission iong after...
...Thomaston, Me., while spectators applauded and workmen cheered. May Gould, 20, daughter of Albert Gould, Boston admiralty lawyer, swooped a bottle of champagne down at the bow of her father's new yacht, missed. Down the greased ways slid the unchristened schooner. Slipping, skating, skidding behind it, trim in starched linen suit and white hat, plunged May Gould into the icy water. One hundred yards out in the bay, the champagne bottle slipped out of her hand. Three hundred yards out, she caught up with the yacht, grabbed her bottle as it bobbed by, smashed...