Word: trims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although Schubert was a short, dumpy, shuffling little man, Alan Curtis plays him as a trim, handsome, curly-haired lad with a nose for conviviality and an eye for a pretty woman (Ilona Massey). They meet on the Hungarian sheep ranch she manages for a dizzy countess. They part when she decides that it will be best for his music if he goes it alone...
Wrong were the dopesters who expected the 425 to look like hearses for lack of shiny grills and trim. Plastics have replaced zinc, chrome and steel on the Hudson's inside trim and the radiator ornament; but the outside trim, chrome last year, is stainless steel. Pistons and cylinders are still aluminum...
Burgomaster Max was a short, slim & trim bachelor with a sharp eye for a pretty face or ankle. Sporting a torpedo beard and boulevardier's mustache, he was a gay cock sparrow in silk hat, frock coat and gold chain, the idol of the citizenry. As familiar to Bruxellois as his magnificent whiskers was his series of white pinschers, all called "Happy...
...heat lay heavily on the paved sidewalks, the trim houses beside the highway. In a cell in the county jail a young Negro waited too. Eddie Lee Spivey, 28, a sharecropper with a good reputation, married, with two children, had been arrested for rape the night before. Up in his farming community of Mt. Airy, a 65-year-old white woman had been attacked as she crossed a field to her son's house. Bloodhounds had followed tracks from the scene of the crime to a spot near Spivey's house...
...more foresighted radio makers. No sit-down capitalist, Knowlson was one of the first big manufacturers to go after defense business. A year ago he was telling skeptical Chicago cronies that business-as-usual was on the skids. At the convention last week, he was in fighting trim. First he warned his fellow manufacturers: "Whether it is one month or six months ... we are all going to find ourselves in the place where we are unable to get the last component part ... we will have materials we cannot use . . . our bankers will take a personal interest in our detailed affairs...