Word: trimming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trim what Christmas trees there are this year (shortage will be due to lack of woodcutters and transportation), fiberglass garlands and ornaments will replace restricted tinsel and metal spangles...
...Page, 74, clerk of the House of Representatives from 1919 to 1931, "minority clerk emeritus" thereafter, House employe for over 60 years; on his birthday; in Chevy Chase, Md. He went to work as a Congressional page when he was 13; Chester A. Arthur was President. As clerk, bald, trim-mustached, meticulous Page wore a tailcoat, a white-edged vest, and manners to match. He became an authority on Congressional procedure. The 100-word American's Creed, which he wrote in World War I, is still one of the Printing Office's bestsellers...
Among the scrub eucalyptus trees in a trim little Australian-American military cemetery outside Port Moresby, the New York Times's Byron Darnton was buried last week with full military honors. The Army said only that he was killed in an accident. He was 44 years old and the tenth U.S. correspondent to fall in line of duty in World...
...SAKE SHUT UP! DO YOU WANT TO WAKE THE BABY?" a poster in one window argued as redeyed, sleepless Yardlings grimly eyed the trim and buoyant squads wheeling below...
From his car Franklin Roosevelt, with a sailor's appreciative eye, took in the trim new subchaser PC-467, snugged tidily to the wharf, her brightwork glistening in the hot September sun. Radio technicians placed a battery of microphones across his lap. Said the President of the U.S. to the Crown Princess of Norway and the people of the world...