Word: trims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...request, Stuffy retired last July to the quiet of his widower's home in Wimbledon to follow the war through the newspapers. At 61 he is still a trim, erect figure, more than ever engrossed in the spiritualist studies which have long interested him. In London's Sunday Pictorial Sir Hugh was quoted last week: "I am sure that our war dead live on. ... I have read messages from them...
...snake her way through a radiobroadcast love scene, Theda Bara, 52, siren of the early silents, emerged from 20-odd years of retirement. Her victim was goggle-eyed Groucho Marx. The studio audience found the famed vamp about 30 Ib. heavier than in her salad days, but still trim in the legs, hypnotic in the eyes. They also found her afflicted with stage fright. The ex-siren told reporters she did the stunt as a favor to friends, had no idea of trying a comeback, then returned to the curio-cluttered mansion where she has long been one of Hollywood...
...subsidies a substitute for a bolder tax program to trim purchasing power into line with the shortage of consumer goods...
...special course for illiterate soldiers. At Dale Mabry Field in Florida, convalescents' courses range from identification of Japanese air craft to Arctic warfare. Officers, their wives, Red Cross workers and college professors lecture on such subjects as "Our Latin American Neighbors" and "How to Keep in Fighting Trim in Africa." The Army has made the happy discovery that such work not only makes better and wiser men; it also shortens convalescence, speeds sick soldiers' return to active duty...
...weeks ago a council of southeastern Governors meeting in Florida (TIME, April 5) raised the perennial charge. Last week New York's trim Governor Thomas E. Dewey denied it in a memorandum to ICC, said that any change in rates would hurt New York's manufacturers. Said he: "New York State can only view such a result with the greatest concern...