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Word: trims (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Long Island's Manhattan Beach, Helen Howard, granddaughter of Brooklyn Bridge-jumper Steve Brodie, did many a trim jackknife (see cut) from the high springboard in the American Athletic Union's championship trials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 6, 1936 | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

...spruce modern plant, raised an endowment of $1,600,000. Under President Peirce, Kenyon has drawn its 250 students largely from prosperous Episcopalian families, supported flourishing chapters of the swanker Greek letter fraternities rarely found on Midwestern campuses. Particularly proud are Kenyon-ites of the college's trim airport and two planes, the gift of Manhattan Lawyer Wilbur Love Cummings, Class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Milestone for Kenyon | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

...Trim, well-groomed Dorothy Arnold, 24, also known as Doris Sherman and Dixie, insisted that she had never prostituted herself. Virginia-born, she left school at 14, eloped at 17 with a carnival man. In New York he made a living sefling gowns and lingerie, then took to opium and retired. Meantime a girl she knew had begun bringing men to her apartment. Soon Dorothy Arnold took up this kind of entertaining as a livelihood. Once she tried to operate without bookers, found she could get no girls. Her girls, she said, charged whatever a man would pay, usually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Bawdy Business | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

...Sons O' Guns," starring Joe E. Brown, shows what fun the Great War really was. It was all just a grand round of Y. M. C. A. entertainments, lovely French girls, and lots of wine, with a little fighting thrown in to keep everyone in trim. Mr. Brown clowns through this inane plot in a pleasant, fairly amusing way, assisted by Joan Blondell. The stage show, headed by M. Tito Guizar, is incredibly poor. It's hard to tell whether Guizar is trying to be Mexican, Spanish or Italian, but it doesn't matter much. The revue is billed...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

...Widener's bay colt of doubtful paternity* had equaled the world record for a mile and a furlong. Of the six races Brevity had entered, he had won five. With a winter's training in Florida behind him, the handsome three-year-old was in perfect trim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Churchill Downs | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

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