Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minutes before 4:30 p. m. one day last week at Newark Airport, United Air Lines' ten-place transport No. 23, bound for Chicago, taxied up to the passenger depot for loading. The passenger list was unusually small. There was a trim young woman who, flushed with excitement, confided in the pilot that she had missed the previous plane and had to be in Reno next morning "to visit her sister." (It turned out that she was to be married next day.) And there was a middle-aged man named Emil Smith, a retired grocer. Mr. Smith caused...
...English gardener who landscaped Haverford's trim campus So years ago introduced cricket, still the favorite spring sport. Haverford calls freshmen "Rhinies" (as does Lawrenceville School). An annual custom is dressing in odd costumes for the last Ethics lecture of the year by Professor Rufus Matthew Jones, Haverford's most respected and oldest active teacher, 'Quaker theologian and member of the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry. The costume custom was nearly abandoned when a student appeared on a Kiddie Kar in long woolen underwear as Lady Godiva. Among Haverford's younger teachers are Leslie Hotson...
Beatrice ("Bea") Gottlieb, trim Manhattan blonde from Tuckahoe, N.Y., arrived home and told the newspapers how she played golf with the Prince of Wales, beat him (TIME, Aug. 14). She "just happened" to be playing the same courses he was playing, several days in a row. One day he asked his private professional, towering Archie Compston, to arrange a match. Mrs. Alastair Mackintosh made it a foursome and they played three rounds on as many courses, Miss Gottlieb and Wales playing for a ball a hole. After halving two matches, she finally won with...
...dangerously explosive. If the final coal code should go against union labor, an outbreak of such bloody violence was feared that nothing short of Federal troops could restore order. ¶ President Roosevelt began to appoint special boards around the country to review veterans' cases of presumptive military disability, trim bogus claims off the pension rolls. The American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars were liberally represented on most boards. ¶ Cuba last week occupied a large part of the President's attention (see p. 15). After the coup d'état he ordered three U. S. destroyers...
Dentists could dismiss this problem if all their patients were as stoical as one of Dr. Arrigo Piperno's. Dr. Piperno, who plays the violin and has four clinics in Rome, was graduated from Chicago Dental College 25 years ago. Last week, trim and handsome, his iron-gray mustache carefully waxed, he was back in Chicago to tell old & new friends about his No. 1 patient for the past eight years, Benito Mussolini...