Word: trims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...midwinter orange festival in San Bernardino has its queen. The State's annual lemon show has none. The suntanned girls of San Bernardino who hope and pray to be Queen of the Oranges, will not compete for Queen of the Lemons. But in East Texas last week a trim 17-year-old belle of Jacksonville did not hesitate to come forward and be crowned Queen of the Tomatoes. By proclamation of Governor Miriam ("Ma") Ferguson, last week was the first "National"' Tomato Week, sponsored by the East Texas and Jacksonville Chambers of Commerce, blessed by growers, shippers...
...followers apiece, the two cults live communally, subscribe to the same credo. They are vegetarians. They wear no garments of black, the color of death. They believe that non-sinners never die, that there is always a King David alive somewhere in the world. Males neither shave nor trim their locks. The Purnell faction operates farms, a hotel, a bakery, a restaurant. Somewhat less piously reactionary, the Dewhirst faction runs a summer resort, an amusement park and the House of David's most famed possession-three bearded baseball teams. Travelling about the country these teams, which include many...
...still a Republican. The friendly bread-breaking with Governor Pinchot at the White House cost the President nothing. It is part of the Presidential policy to remain on good terms with Republicans of the Norris-Cutting-Johnson-Pinchot stamp, while always reserving the hope that a good Democrat may trim them in an election...
Sunday in trim, flowery little Sofia last week was an idyllic summer day. Citizens sat in the cafes as if nothing had happened since King Boris married his Italian princess four years ago. But all had changed since two nights before when Fascist army officers seized the Government, booted out all elected politicians, jailed 800 and foisted Fascism on Bulgaria...
After meeting a powerful Princeton team Saturday morning and going down to a 7 to 2 defeat, the Varsity golf team displayed a courageous fight in the afternoon to trim Pennsylvania 6 to 3 over the Dartmouth course at Hanover. New Hampshire...