Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...union, had frequently deserted the Republicans to vote labor. When Welch was alive, Boss Ed Flynn tried to get Shelley to run against him; Shelley not only refused but said that if Flynn put up some other Democrat, "I would stump publicly for Dick Welch." In Brooklyn, a trim, earnest party worker named Edna Flannery Kelly, 43, was elected in the normally Democratic, heavily Catholic and Jewish Tenth District...
Army & Navy also had to practice a little self-denial on orders of Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, pressing his own campaign to trim expenses $800 million. Johnson ordered the mothballing of 77 Navy ships, including two medium-and three small-sized aircraft carriers, six cruisers, 14 destroyers, nine submarines. Navy manpower would be cut 55,000 to 461,000. The Army announced that all 24,000 of the current draftees would be released after completing a year's service, and no more would be called in the "foreseeable future." The Army had to squeeze within a budget...
Alben Barkley, 71, has been a widower since 1947, when his wife died after 44 years of marriage and several years of illness. Mrs. Hadley, a trim brunette who looks younger than her 38 years, toured Europe as a child with her mother, a professional pianist. Her lawyer husband, Carleton Hadley, left her a widow at 33 with two daughters. She worked for Willkie in 1940 (once she left a note for her Roosevelt-supporting milkman: "No Willkie, no milkie") but she insists that she is really "a Democrat from way back." Her grandfather was a Democratic Congressman from Missouri...
...Hollywood, Annette Kellerman, who was arrested in Boston 40 years ago for introducing the one-piece bathing suit, was scandalized at the trend she had set in motion. Still trim at 62, she said: "Bathing suits were lovely until last year when they brought out those diapers. They're vulgar and suggestive. Heavens! What will they be wearing...
...Lusty Child. There were early flops, but the flops were soon outnumbered by notable successes. Trim, clean-lined stoves, oil heaters, refrigerators and washing machines outsold their ugly predecessors and those of competitors. Streamlining, which had the laudable purpose of cutting down wind resistance in trains, cars, etc., became such a craze that it was even inflicted on such static objects as desk sets. Little by little the hardy, struggling band proved that their artistry could draw that prettiest curve of all to businessmen−an upward-sweeping sales curve...