Word: trims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...window, Eliphalet," said Parton. Pushing back the shutters, Greer saw a tall ship treading in and out of the wind at the harbor's mouth-a clipper with raked masts and a forefoot like a seabird's beak, waiting there with all sails set, delicate and trim. "Niggers," said Parton; and he told how he had brought his ship full of black men to show the people o!' Portsmouth that Merchant Greer was a "Nigger-trader." Eliphalet Greer put on his beaver hat. He turned from the ledger where the black blot was spreading; down...
...novels-Hertha, The President's Daughter, The Home, The Neighbors, Nina,-were never trim enough to make the passage between Today and Yesterday; lugubrious galleons, in that gulf they foundered. But time has preserved her letters in their own sharp salt; and the lapse of this half-century has bred in them a charm, a pathos they could never have had in the beginning-the charm of the ingenuous, the pathos of the unaware. Here was a little lady looking at a country sick with dysentery, fever in its veins and the drums of war tapping. She ob- served...
Much-sung football alumni of Pennsylvania, including "Lud" Wray, "Heine" Miller, "Poss" Miller, Bert Bell, "Lou" Young (head coach of Penn's unbeaten 1924 Varsity) stepped out on Franklin Field to keep Penn in trim for her holiday game on the Pacific Coast. They intercepted a pass, they passed themselves, they surpassed the Varsity...
Chiefest and best known among his peccant intimates of those stormy days was the lady known as "Claire", a Highland lass, actually named Kate Drummond, "slim and dark, very trim and neat, with jet-black hair." She was one of the class aptly known as "unfortunates", but Stevenson's affection for her appears rot to have been wholly sensual. Rather she filled a gap for him. He was a lonely youth, with few intimates other than his drunken cronies. She stands out significantly among all his later amours?reputable and otherwise. And Stevenson was ever the lover, his hot eager...
...Crimson Ribband, trim'ly ty'd behind...