Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barbara Ann, with a peaches-&-cream complexion, saucer-size blue eyes and rosebud mouth, is certainly pretty enough. Her light brown hair (golden now that she bleaches it) falls pageboy style on her shoulders. She weighs a trim, girlish 107 Ibs. neither as full-bosomed as a Hollywood starlet nor as wide-hipped as most skaters. She looks, in fact, like a doll which is to be looked at but not touched. But Barbara Ann Scott is no fragile mammet. She is the women's figure-skating champion of the world...
...unlikely that any bottles were left over. Winnie was back home, in fighting trim, and as much of a wassailer and a statesman as ever (see INTERNATIONAL). Britain, half-convinced now that there would always be a Churchill, experienced a new boom of Churchill anecdotes. Samples...
Suddenly, at one of these halts, a blue Ford station wagon hove in sight, coming down from Konitsa. Out of it tripped a hatless, trim figure of a girl wearing woolen stockings, bobby-sox, a grey, fur-trimmed coat with an emerald bracelet peeping from the sleeve. "Hail, Boubou-lina!" bellowed the bishop.* The girl was Greece's blue-eyed, curly-haired, blonde Queen Frederika...
...disappeared . . . the great camp . . . had still a lingering civilized appearance. The trees looked as beautiful as ever in the sparkling morning air and chrysanthemums were blooming in the gardens. The church . . . was still undesecrated. The British graveyard, where 120 British dead had been left behind, was neat and trim. The glass gleamed in the windows of the . . . barracks which are like rows of suburban villas. Some chimneys were smoking with their last fires. The cinema was there, with the announcement of In Which We Serve still flapping against its wall...
...Presents. When la mêre was at last free of her cooking, she still had plenty to do. She had to help the older sons, Jean, 24, and André, 22, decorate the flat with red paper bells and ribbon, trim the tree with baubles, set up a little creche with an electric light above it. She had to make certain that the maid set the réveillon table with red-candled silver candelabra and the beautiful lace cloth Madame had crocheted herself 25 years ago. Then there were presents...