Word: trims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then available; the first Frontier Nurses were all British. There are now 30, half British, the rest U. S.-born, Britishrtrained. All must be good horsewomen, registered nurses, experienced in public health work. Living in nine nursing districts, they cover 700 sq. mi. of mountain land, galloping about in trim riding habits and overseas caps, fording such streams as Greasy Fork, Hell-for-Certain and Big Bullskin Creeks, spurring ahead when they hear from a cabin window the hoarse shout: ''Come on, ma'am! My woman's mighty bad." At first the mountain people were slow...
...reinstate her if & when she took an action which would seem far more like professionalism than the one for which she had been suspended. In newspaper advertisements for Dodge automobiles last week appeared a picture of Miss Didrikson with a testimonial by her, saying: "One look at its trim beauty and you know it has class." A. A. U. officials decided that the advertisement broke a regulation which says that amateur athletes may not give out testimonials. Miss Didrikson's reply was that she had not been paid for the testimonial, that she had not authorized it. E. Gordon...
...would have to include weightlifting, wrestling, fencing, croquet, field hockey, soccer, polo, shooting, rowing, skating, bowling, pool, lacrosse, cooking. She holds the women's world record for throwing a baseball. She got her first newspaper publicity when, in a Dallas store "One look at its trim beauty and you know it has class." two years ago, she hoisted a 50-lb. weight over head. A physical freak in her ability to co-ordinate her actions with her eye, Miss Didrikson is not freakish in appearance. Now 19, she weighs 126 lb., has slim hard wrists and ankles, long spatulate...
From a duck hunt General Ashburn returned to New Orleans last week in fighting trim. He denounced Banker Lisman as an "unqualified liar," called him a "paid railroad lobbyist" declared that Mr. Lisman had had to apologize for similar statements last summer just when he (Ashburn) was about to sue for defamation of character. According to General Ashburn, all testimony in Chicago was part of a "railroad plot" to discredit his barge line. In the barge line's latest (1931) annual balance sheet, General Ashburn reports a net operating income of $298,756 and a deduction from cash revenues...
...Vagabond and his confreres have just learned. The Vagabond's old admirer, the Radcliffe Daily, is no more. She exists still in spirit, as the Radcliffe News-Daily, but the spark which made her is gone, for she appears only thrice a week, and has lost her trim slimness. She has time before each issue to wipe her spectacles, arrange the knot on the back of her head a bit more neatly, and write a reflective editorial full of concise, trenchant phrases about poetry and politics, or war debts. It is thus that she has lost caste. There...