Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Glen Ridge, N. J., in revenge for a town zoning ordinance preventing her from renting her house to an oil company, Mrs. Daniel A. Warren hung red flannels in the front yard, painted the front steps red with green risers, the first story bright orange-yellow, the trim of the front door bright blue, the door green, the upper story red, white, green and blue, striped and smeared. She hung two big dummies against the . wall, painted a donkey, an elephant, seven jackasses, a sign "Speak gently, shush, KISS ME," a figure of blindfolded Justice saying...
...Leningrad this system has already been applied to several streets. Last year buildings on both sides of the Nevski Prospect (No. 1 Tsarist boulevard) were painted. The former palace of Grand Duke Dmitri* was daubed brilliant red with glaring white trim. Leningrad's central ticket office was repainted three times in different color schemes until the Soviet was satisfied that it is "right." Civic gangs of plumbers and carpenters trailed after the painters, fixing people's water faucets, floors, roofs at inconvenient times with maximum gusto...
...vaguely recall that Miss Merrill was presented at the Court of St. James. She was supposed to have been in love with Duncan Minor, who traced his lineage back to a Spanish Governor of the Louisiana territory, but they never married. For reasons unknown she withdrew to "Glenburney," the trim white family home a mile out from Natchez on the Kingston Road. A woman of means, she affected old-fashioned dress, lived in decent comfort, if not style. A frequent visitor at "Glenburney" was Duncan Minor, but to the rest of the world its doors were closed. Miss Merrill...
...band marched up playing "Hail, Hail the Gang's All Here." All in white, Peter P. Cappel, head of New York Jewelers Exchange Inc. and a generous Democrat, brought to the station three pretty girls with baskets of roses which they sprinkled under the Mayor's trim little feet. From the hooraying throng an elderly woman wriggled through the police lines and planted a loud kiss on the Walker cheek. "Attaboy, Jimmy! You showed 'em Jimmy! We're with you, Jimmy!" was again the welcoming cry. But inside the Executive Chamber at Albany where the Mayor...
Over Phoenix. Ariz, at midnight the Akron circled for a time, adjusting her trim for the push over the mountains. She disgorged her two airplanes to fly on by themselves, lightening the airship's load by 6,000 Ib. and adding 2,000 ft. to her ceiling. Crossing Texas, Commander Rosendahl spurned Fort Worth and Dallas to fly over his mother's home at Cleburne. On the last leg from Parris Island the Akron averaged 75 knots, a record...