Word: trimmer
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...this country to write conduce to a whole-hearted reliance on the sincerity of the author. There are more ways than one of undermining sales-resistance. But Americans, like all true bibliophiles, should read between the lines. There would probably be seen there a crudely overt attempt by the trimmer of the Green Hat to insure a market for his latest millinery creations among Romantic Ladies...
Senator Borah last week did just the sort of thing that makes his critics call him a trimmer, and the Insurgents despair of him as a member of their group: Before the Senate were the Tariff Commission nominations. Senator Borah arose to say: "What kind of hybrid monstrosity are we creating by constituting these special commissions to deal with expert subjects and placing upon them men who are in no wise qualified as experts? Congress is rapidly delegating its power. We are surrendering the duties imposed upon us by the Constitution. ..." But when the vote came on Commissioner Edgar Brossard...
...trimmer in our party was a 17-year-old girl, whose name was Elvira Kukel. She was a frail, pretty, sympathetic girl, who had the misfortune of being the daughter of Col. Kukel, of the former Imperial Guards...
...lady don't want to move, don't she?" said Earl Fred to Harry Trimmer. "Well, courtesy don't cost nothing," and he turned to the assembled newspapermen...
...down train from London stopped at Ringwood, Hants, last week, and Fred Perceval and his boy, and Harry Trimmer and his wife, all of Priddis, Alberta, Canada, got out. Harry Trimmer is postmaster at Priddis and runs the general store. Fred Perceval has had a cattle ranch there for a good many years, but he had to give it up. A dozen deaths among distant relatives made him tenth Earl of Egmont, Baron Lovell and Holland, Baron Arden. He was going to Castle Avon at Ringwood to take possession of his ancestral home...