Word: trimmer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lipsticked, mascaraed and tilting at a precarious angle ("How do they walk in these things?"), Actor Lemmon digs out most of the laughs in the script. As for Marilyn, she's been trimmer, slimmer and sexier in earlier pictures...
...fall, buyers turned to the "relaxed look," a slimmer, trimmer, tighter version of the chemise. One fast comer is the empire style-a bust-emphasizing high waist with a flaring skirt. Fall dresses will be two or three inches shorter than last fall's models, and colors will be gayer and splashier...
...remains as chairman. Bob Kirkwood had decided on a career in pharmacy after high school, was lured away from a drugstore in his home town of Provo, Utah, by the glowing picture of dime-store opportunity painted by a local Woolworth manager. He started as a window trimmer, became a store manager in Denver at 20, soon proved to have the proper mixture for success: administrative talent with the ability to get along with people. He bossed stores in five cities across the nation, became manager of the Boston district before being called to Manhattan in 1954. ¶ George...
What are the librarians' standards? They are a long way from the 18th century reformer, Sarah Trimmer, who argued that Cinderella was pernicious because "it paints some of the worst passions that can enter into the human breast . . . envy, jealousy, a dislike of stepmothers." But there are still plenty of Trimmers trimming away, seeing to it that the books are inoffensive...
...Time. In Corfu, N.Y., town fathers were trying to replace a policeman, school-crossing guard, water-system operator, snowplow driver, tree trimmer, refuse collector, meter reader and general maintenance man after Leonard J. Gardner quit his $3,225-a-year town job to go to work in a tool and die works...