Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit last week the startled Appeal Board of the Michigan Tax Commission was confronted with a jungle-like black beard. Hiding behind it was Judge Harry Thomas Dewhirst, head of the famed House of David. Male members of this U. S. cult neither shave nor trim their locks, eat no flesh, in the stout belief that thus they will be among the 144,000 elect when Gabriel blows his horn. Judge Dewhirst, rich onetime California jurist, bearded the Appeal Board to beg his sect off from Michigan's unemployment-compensation taxes. He admitted his colony was in business...
...wealthy, trim, fiftyish Mrs. Rushmore Patterson of Manhattan and Washington, sometime Prohibitionist, occasional poet, politician, busy bee, life in the last 25 years has been just one Cause after another. Two months ago, with no immediate Cause to occupy her, ardent Mrs. Patterson had time to contemplate something that had been bothering her. What this thing was she was not sure, but it had something to do with foreign isms, and was probably due to hard times...
...Fred Waring is trim, clear-blue-eyed, looks nearer 30. In his course as a musical businessman he has picked up two subsidiaries, Words & Music Inc., and a $250,000 venture in an electric drink and food mixer he thought up two years ago. The Waring mixer in its first year and a half sold 60,000, is still going strong...
Over Portland, Ore. one day last week buzzed a trim two-motored airplane that outwardly looked like any other U. S. aircraft, but inwardly was as different as a hickory basket from a ship's hull. For while the skeleton of other planes is built up of longitudinal braces, bulkheads and stringers, the framework of this Greenwood-Yates Geodetic Bi-Craft is woven of spruce strips. It resembles nothing more than a woven basket covered with fabric to keep out the breeze, powered with two 50-h.p. engines to pull it through the air. Its structure is called geodetic...
...Grover Whalen has lost his leanness, but remains in top physical trim. He diets, neither drinks nor smokes, rides a lot. He has a country place at Roslyn, L. I., a town house at 48 Washington Mews-an alley off Fifth Avenue near Washington Square where Manhattan rich used to stable their horses and now like to live themselves...