Word: trims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President awaited serenely the adjournment of Congress, smug and trim in the cool White House. He told Reporters that he enjoyed the lassitudinous Washington climate during July and August. However, he added, he believed in getting away for a little while, if only for the sake of change in environment, that, if the Capitol were in the Adirondacks, he would leave just the same. News arrived, simultaneously with the President's announcement, that one Andrew Bishop, who lives near the Coolidge summer camp, had frozen his ears on a frosty night last week...
...President announced to news gatherers a Treasury surplus of $390,000,000 for this year. Lest business men should trim their budgets in expectation of another tax cut, Mr. Coolidge hastily added that back taxes collected this year total $350,000,000, that no such large back tax surplus is expected next year, that to cut taxes further would not be "constructive economy...
John North Willys, "one of the handsomest executives," the "Little Napoleon" of the automotive industry,* set his pince-nez back on his small, sharp nose. The bustle roused by several hundred enthusiastic Willys-Overland dealers convening at Toledo was slightly disheveling to this trim 53-year-oldster† who "builds automobiles, lives automobiles and talks automobiles." There was, however, no weariness in that long-lipped smile, which can caress a lackadaisical dealer into a "gogetter...
...anyway, the girl said it was a Negro who attacked her, and Albert Blazes was a Negro. The bloodhounds had brought him in. Now the sheriff was holding him until he got what was coming to him; he must know what that was. One of the deputies bent to trim the lantern when a grunt from the sheriff stopped his hand; the three men and the huddled shadow listened intently. It was beginning. Darkly, softly borne on the dark soft air, a noise of voices reached the warehouse?tumbled cries, deep and shrill blended together, struck through with the note...
...herself on the go. It was "Mary!" here and "Mary!" there, and Mary went everywhere. She saw other girls get dowdy at their stagnating office work. She saw men grow seedy and baldheaded, take to spectacles and paper cuffs to keep their semiweekly shirt sleeves clean. She herself kept trim and cheerful. In 1919 the gas company workers decided they wanted to strike. Mary talked to them like a mother and also like a "dutch uncle." They kept on working. Her ways with the public, with the company's 40,000 consumers, were always winning. She humanized the business...