Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arose, dressed themselves in their best, and hurried to the patios and salas of the Palace, where they saw floral compositions representing harps, marimbas, Guatemala's shield, books, a motorcycle, a locomotive, a train. At the end of a long, polished-mahogany chamber they were greeted by a trim, steely-eyed man. Officials addressed him as Chief, humble folk as Father. He was Jorge Ubico, celebrating his 62nd year of life, his ninth year as President of Guatemala...
...Science teachers from all over the Midwest have joined his Sunday throngs, seeking pointers on how to keep their own classes awake. For accuracy Mr. Dallwig checks his scripts, which he whips up evenings during the week, with the museum's learned curators. To keep his voice in trim, he gives up smoking during the 30-week season. He used to prefer being known simply as the "Layman Lecturer," but emerged from anonymity in a hurry after hearing that a woman in his group referred to him as that "wonderful Mr. Layman...
...agree with him have kept their opinion to themselves. The Air Corps, controlled by groundling officers of the General Staff, rocked along as a branch of the Army, and in 1940's emergency it found itself in the Army's fix: a long way from M-Day trim. But many a flying man could see, close ahead, the day when Billy Mitchell's demand for separate existence would be outmoded. For the inevitable result of the growing strength and tactical importance of military aviation was that soon it would have all the representation it needed (like infantry...
...Nile ("There'll be doin's in them ruins when we come"). Determined to meet the hussy on her own ground, Ethel also swings her big, scarlet-clad body into the most massive cancan of the season. As the hussy, Negro Ballerina Katherine Dunham is a trim and flexible devil's advocate. Her dancers follow her through a series of jazz-heated formations. The accompaniment of one of them is true, improvised boogie-woogie by Pianist Sidney Tuscher of the hand-picked pit orchestra. Staged by the Russian choreographer George Balanchine, fellow Slav of Composer Duke (real...
Else K. LaRoe, a Manhattan plastic surgeon, well knows how much discomfort women will stand in order to have a good figure, or even the illusion of one. She herself is a small, trim, exuberantly vivacious blonde in her forties. She claims to have lifted many faces, corrected many double chins, eye pouches, rolls of body fat. But her specialty is the woman with a "bust problem." She has now collected much of her experience in a book, The Breast Beautiful (Field; $2.50). Few doctors will consider it important, but to women its subject is of perennial interest...