Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prospects included: trim, smart Anna Rosenberg, labor relations expert for WMC, who would replace Frances Perkins' unfashionable hats with modish millinery from Manhattan Hatter Sally Victor; the A.F. of L. Teamsters' droop-jowled old Daniel J. ("Uncle Dan") Tobin; War Manpower's Paul McNutt; ex-Pennsylvania Congressman James McGranery. And there was always able, Lincolnesque John Gilbert Winant, head of the International Labor Office since 1939 and now U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...balkline championship home from Paris. Now 57, greying William Frederick Hoppe is not only the last of the sport giants, but goes right on being one. In only one respect has he slowed down: he no longer jogs around Manhattan's Central Park reservoir to keep in trim; he walks...
...Mark W. Clark, trim, white-haired, publicity-wise wife of Lieut. General Mark Clark, expressed a wish to be "even a honky-tonk dancer" as a sure-fire passport for overseas service, sighed: "But I haven't got glamor...
...Those Worn-Out Crackpots." Next day, as the special train crossed Ohio and Indiana. Franklin Roosevelt and his advisers (Judge Sam Rosenman, Playwright Robert Sherwood) worked hard to trim the big Chicago speech from 9,000 to 3,000 words. At Fort Wayne, there was an interruption: the President left the train for a specially built platform, standing high over a square where a crowd of 24,000 was gathered. The President, who knew that many wanted to reassure themselves about his health, said: "I am in the middle of a war, and so are you. . . . It is quite...
...purchase of the fourth largest U.S. afternoon paper (circ. 434,938),* trim, balding John Shively Knight became one of the nation's most potent publishers. He was already one of the most prosperous. His Akron Beacon-Journal, Miami Herald and Detroit Free Press are smoothly run, highly profitable...