Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into the White House trooped top U.S. officials, foreign dignitaries, Congressmen, advisers, many an old & new friend. It made a heavy schedule for the new President, but the small, trim man behind the big mahogany desk took it in his stride...
...else could quite fill the bill. His performance blends with the soft European beauty of Greta Gynt and the calm, leisurely pacing characteristic of English films to create an extremely satisfying impression of finished artistry. There is fidelity of characterization; unlike American screen women, who are invariably trim, several of the female leads are frankly heavy. There are glimpses of Goering and Himmler that ring very true, and desperate expressions on the faces of tortured Jews which tell the whole miserable story of persecution. "Mr. Emmanuel" goes into grim Nazi dungeons and glittering Nazi society with equal confidence and conviction...
...through scores of little German country towns. They are untouched by war. All the glass is in the. windows; the pansy beds are trim and fresh with purple and yellow blooms; the big beds of straw-covered beets are carefully protected against the weather in regular brown mounds...
...Second's commander, Lieut. General Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey, has learned and grown in World War II. He was a Lieutenant colonel in 1939. In those days, the usual type of top-ranking British general was majestic, rugged, slow-moving and often slow-thinking. The current type is trim, compact, quick-moving, quick witted and willing to learn - like Montgomery, Alexander and Dempsey. Dempsey is the tallest of the three (six feet) but he is slender...
...those six weeks they became trim and sharp-factory-made old salts who referred to walls as "bulkheads," windows as "ports," floors as "decks," "reported aboard" and saw visitors "over the side." They had absorbed Navy tradition, had had a quick but thorough briefing on naval operations, naval weapons, history and current affairs. They were also imbued with the idea that if a WAVE quit, it was the same as a battlefront casualty...