Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...creation named "Trim Little Suit" brought ecstatic applause as the models began parading across the pink carpet, posturing on a raised dais. Adrian's price: $225. Another, "It's Not True" ($210) had a long black skirt and a transparent lace front. "Black Glamour" ($395) was a study in black seductiveness for evening. Adrian showed 60 of his creations: "Suit with Red Excitement," "Black Dress with Two Roses," "Dinner with a Dash of Gold," "Commando," "For a Visit to the Camp," "When He's Home," "Peace and Quiet," "Where's the U.S.O...
...Miss Mac" is no career-type Amazon. Alert, bright-eyed, jaunty, she leavens a business-like matter-of-factness with quick wit and brisk speech. She is trim, well-dressed, efficient and, as she puts it, she has fallen for the Navy...
...world still remembered how the charter was born in the fog-wreathed North Atlantic, where H.M.S. Prince of Wales and the trim, grey, bow-flared U.S.S. Augusta tossed at anchor, where the President of the U.S. and the Prime Minister of Great Britain conferred, sang at ship services, conferred again...
Pepe's Kill. Handsome in his olive vestido de corte, his sideburns shadowed by his flat-crowned sombrero, José Maria proved himself a good novillero. His verónicas were trim and clean-cut. He bravely ventured a few faroles, swirling his cape overhead in the pass. Greatest applause and the bull's ear went to a comedian, who arduously dispatched a bull calf with toothpick horns to the accompaniment of a conga. The greatest burst of catcalls and jeers rose at the eviction of a teenage boy who leaped the arena fence and had beginner...
Enlisted Men. After dinner trim, healthy-looking boys flood through the high gate of the estate's massive stone wall, soft-shoe it down narrow sidewalks and attend the local pay-as-you-enter dances-the Town Hall or rest center-pick up local girls and stroll through the town park. Soldiers crowd local movie houses, though better and newer pictures are usually showing in the recreation building on the estate. But there is an agreement with British distributors that no civilian can see camp movies and boys cannot take girls. With natives or officers, all are amazingly polite...