Word: trims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pump every time you go for water in the yard.--Trim all the lamps...
...Barthou that Mussolini began the secret negotiations which came to a climax last week. The two men never met, dickered through ambassadors. To ensure that nobody should be able to assassinate Pierre Laval on Italian soil last week, his train clicked over tracks guarded every 50 feet by a trim Fascist militiaman who snapped to salute at sight of Excellency Laval and his vivacious daughter José-"Josette" to her adoring papa. As usual Mama Laval remained at home...
...Laval's hand, but first he kissed Excellency Laval on both cheeks. Outside the station a mob of Romans, accustomed for years to shout "Abbasso la Francia! Down with France! " when they mentioned that country at all roared "Evviva Mussolini! Evviva la Francia! Evviva Laval!" With 5,000 trim Italian police and militia blocking off the station, the Frenchman's hotel and an intervening strip of Rome, II Duce gave a pointed exhibition of how to guarantee the safety of a foreign visitor...
Last week the trim white Colonial student houses of Bennington College were locked up tight. Bennington's 230 bright, healthy young women had put their ski trousers away in mothballs and, like all other college students, gone home for the holidays. Unlike the others, the girls of Bennington would not be back for two months. This week each of the 230 will be off to do field work in some part of North America or Europe...
Lasting monuments to the Dictator's greatness are trim, healthful, brand new homes now occupied by 60,000 War veterans on the former Pontine Marshes. So persistent was local belief that it was Death to live on these once malarial lands, that II Duce had to recruit his colonists in distant parts of Italy where the legend of Death was but dimly known. Today middle-class Romans are scrambling for plots on which to build summer homes bordering a pretty lake near one of the new cities in Litoria. The whole project is Benito Mussolini's particular...