Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hong Kong race track seated on a handsome brown horse, clanking unnautical golden spurs. He used to be a great athlete-an all-Navy cricket and rugby player, a squash-courts intimate of Edward of Windsor, an enthusiastic pursuer of the fox's brush-and still keeps himself trim by touching the floor 100 times every morning. He looks so spruce that he is often taken for a brother of his elder...
Have U. S. schools been corrupted by newfangled ideas? Yes, cries many a tough-minded oldster. No, snorted the No. 1 U. S. school efficiency expert last week -they are not even up to date. The expert, trim, white-haired Professor Paul R. Mort of Columbia University's Teachers College, after a three-year study of 344 schools, reported his findings in American Schools in Transition (Bureau of Publica tions, Teachers College...
...fortnight ago seemed all sewed up by the Nazis, showed signs of stiffening, if only for a historic instant, the people were hysterically happy. The stiffening was obtuse: it evidenced itself in rumors and unconfirmed statements-that Yugoslavia would accept nothing more than a non-aggression pact; that when trim, elegant German Minister to Belgrade Victor von Heeren strongly urged adherence to the Axis pact, and offered a plane to carry Premier Dragisha Cvetkovitch and Foreign Minister Aleksandar Cincar-Markovitch to Berlin to sign, those gentlemen let it be known they liked to travel by train; that the first full...
...Trip 21's cabin, most of the 13 passengers were in their berths. But Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, the line's husky president, the U. S.'s No. 1 fighting pilot of World War I, was up. He was getting off at Atlanta. Little Clarence Moore, the trim British steward, was dressed...
...touch on the starter, the motor roared, then settled into a gentle rumble. The odor of warm oil, warm metal filled the crowded tank; then the steady, rhythmic, lulling scrunch of the gears. Behind the motorized infantry, the motorcyclists, the trim anti-tank guns, the 68th moved into line, went past The Old Man at 20 m.p.h. Sergeant Pullen drove like a virtuoso, keeping his tank dressed with the four others on his left, watching the field for holes or stumps which would give him and his men a bashing blow against the steel walls...