Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story pattern pasted against a war background. It begins in Czecho-Slovakia, moves to England, hurries back to Germany, then to Switzerland during a hectic scramble for the possession of a Czech scientist (James Harcourt) with secret plans in his head for a new type of steel plate. His trim, saucy daughter (Margaret Lockwood) strings along, meets with handsome British and German intelligence officers (Rex Harrison and Paul von Hern-reid), scrambles matters by failing to recognize for some time Mr. Right...
...trim and excited as so many debs...
...children themselves none of this was as important as the prospect of a blacked-out Christmas. They planned to trim the bare steel girders of the big underground shelters and to set up Christmas trees, to have carols and mince pie. But the youngest moppets were afraid that London's anti-aircraft crews might shoot at Santa Claus...
Foxy, balding Senator Pat Harrison lost $14 at bridge to a Columbia Broadcasting System official, then bet him $15 to $10 that the Chicago Bears would trim the Washington Redskin footballers-and a further dollar-a-point on the score. Next day he took his cocky pal to the field, gloated as the Bears rioted to a 73-to-0 victory, earned him $83 at the rate of $1.38 for every minute of play...
...coast the rain fell and the grey Atlantic heaved in a 15-ft. swell. But some freighter crews, some fishermen, rolling under bare steerage way, saw a sight that made them forget the dull, grey weather. They heard the thunder of engines, saw the mist ripped open by a trim, broad bow, saw a tiny boat skim by, skittering off the tops of waves, pelting through others in a burst of spindrift. On her bridge they caught a quick glimpse of hooded men, goggled, drenched with spray, hanging on behind a tiny windshield. On her deck, if they...