Word: trimmer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both Guy's place and his personal battle grew increasingly ambiguous. The Halberdiers teemed with weird Waugh characters-from one-eyed, ruthless Brigadier Ritchie-Hook through Trimmer, an ex-hairdresser on the Aquitania. to the knowledgeable ass, Apthorpe, whose portable jakes provides Waugh with an outlet for numerous excursions into scatology. Hapless Guy inadvertently kills him at the end with the gift of a bottle of whisky when Apthorpe was suffering from fever...
Friends & Traitors. In Officers and Gentlemen the old Waugh savagery makes mincemeat of the Halberdiers. Trimmer, the cowardly leader of a commando raid that was organized for publicity purposes, is puffed into a phony hero and sent on a tour of factories to bolster civilian mo rale. Guy and a group of fellow commandos are sent on an operation in Crete, where three of them desert (including the commanding officer), and one Waugh original known as Ludovic murders two of his comrades-in-arms...
Virginia, simply because she is pregnant (by Trimmer). "Can you tell me any sane reason for doing this thing?" a friend asks him, and he answers: "I don't think I've ever in my life done a single positively unselfish action. Here was something most unwelcome, put into my hands; something which I believe the Americans describe as 'beyond the call of duty'; not the normal behavior of an officer and gentleman; something they'll laugh about in Bellamy's." His second excursion beyond call of duty is to make a nuisance...
...from about $50 to $60), and there are many cheaper imitations. But for every snow bunny from Squaw Valley to Stowe, a pair of Bogners is the basic status symbol. And Willy Bogner finds U.S. girls the best advertisement his stretch pants could have. Says he: "They are trimmer, you know. American girls are built like pears. European girls are like apples...
...time. The Republican Party was going through one of its darkest periods: there were just 16 G.O.P. members in the Senate. Bridges soon established himself as a staunch conservative and, as a ranking member of the Appropriations Committee (which he chaired during four sessions of Congress), a merciless money trimmer. But his conservatism applied mostly to domestic matters. Before World War II, he fought hard for Lend-Lease and increased military appropriations; after the war, he joined with Michigan's Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg to back the Marshall Plan...