Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before he died early this year, Orwell was working on a collection of his essays. Shooting an Elephant, the portion he completed, is a trim little book of autobiographical reminiscence, literary criticism and incidental journalism. It has all the customary Orwell virtues: humor, moderation, intelligence. Though one of his minor works, it reinforces the impression left by Nineteen Eighty-Four-that Orwell was one of the few genuinely important writers of these times...
Through Half-Moon Glasses. Cripps was the walking symbol as well as the architect of Britain's postwar austerity program. Prim and trim, he looked like a governess and talked like one. He was always telling Britons what they could not have. It was not Cripps's fault that meat was scarce but many Britons blamed him for that when he looked coldly through his half-moon glasses and announced that he did not consider meat "an edible substance." His very name suggested the sound of a crunching cold raw carrot, which was, in fact, one of Vegetarian...
...Locomobile at Chicago's 1908 auto show was a honey. The paint job was white, the cushions and trim were red and the top, supported by wooden bows, was sleek in tailored khaki. The powerful young fellow who had been hanging around the show for four days couldn't keep his eyes off it, but the price was staggering: $5,000. He had only $700, and a wife and two kids back in Iowa to think about, but a bank lent him the money and Walter P. Chrysler, 33, had his first...
...thing. Harvard men think they are "Began Brummels," but they should go to a Winter. Carnival to really learn how to dress. I've never been so breathless in my life as when I saw all those browned Dartmouth men in their wonderful fuzzy green sweaters and those trim blazer instead of a ordinary jacket...
...House exteriors are always being painted," Roberts said, "and the portions requiring bright colors require twice as much attention as the Dulles trim. We try to do the whole exteriors every six years, but sometimes we have to do them sooner...