Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trim, black-haired youth waited in line two days to register for a general commerce course in Notre Dame University. By the time he reached the registrar's desk a friend had persuaded him to switch to an architectural course. After one year at Notre Dame, he went to Catholic University in Washington, D. C. from which he graduated in 1929. During the next five years he taught as part-time instructor at Catholic University, worked in architects' offices in Washington and Manhattan, once won a Beaux Arts prize but was too hard up to go to Paris...
...street dirt while two pianos played jazzy music by Will Irwin, and Howard Phillips, a radio tenor, declaimed Mrs. Shipman's verses, gesticulating passionately. Whirling papers, dusty mops, cans, cans, pots and pans brought on lugubrious germs which attacked a group of innocent children. A dozen trim sweepers saved the situation by singing the Clean City Committee's Marching Song. Excerpt...
Another of M. Doumergue's decrees will trim salaries on a sliding scale. There will be a 20% cut for President Lebrun, 15% for the Cabinet. 10% for all salaries over 100,000 francs. Even 12,000-francers will lose 5% of their small wage. The Cumul will be abolished, the system whereby one employe holds several posts and draws pay for each, nor can anyone be appointed to a government post in future who already draws a pension. Veterans' pensions will be cut. Politicians waited nervously to see how the public would react to these decrees...
Quietly into North Tarrytown, N. Y.'s trim Phillipse Manor station at 10 a. m. an electric locomotive drew a baggage car and one compartment Pullman named Glencliff. Two detectives cleared the platform of all save ticketholders. At 11 a. m. five automobiles, one resembling an ambulance, rolled up in single file. From four of them stepped 24 servants. They opened up the ambulance and lifted out not 94-year-old John Davison Rockefeller St., as bystanders expected, but the first of 115 pieces of luggage. Few minutes later Mr. Rockefeller, well-bundled in wraps and ear muffs...
...vests of maroon and purple, claret and gold; opera capes of blue vicuna lined with scarlet and purple. The Fashion Committee was in favor of streamlining men's clothes: ". . . a stripe, for example, perpendicular through coat and trousers, but for the waistcoat navigating the torso horizontally. Pockets may trim their flaps back to lay neatly against the wind and there will be no buttons on the cuffs - no outside plumb ing. . . ." But the very latest in fashions was the cocktail suit and the champagne coat. The cocktail suit, worn only between 4:30 and 6 of an afternoon...