Word: trims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gesticulating by airline officials. >> General John J. Pershing, 80, lay ill of age's infirmities in Walter Reed Hospital. >> Eugene Meyer lost his well-kept temper when his plane hit a storm, a tray-bearing stewardess hit the floor, and a chicken leg came to rest on his trim grey head. >> John L Lewis' maid refused to sit in a Jim Crow seat, got arrested, said "Mr. Lewis will fix you for this." >> Representative Clare Hoffman (R., Mich.) asked that "applause" (to his speech) be stricken from the Congressional Record "because there was none." Speaker Sam Rayburn suggested...
These baby officers are tough babies. They are trim as well-kept guns, big fellows, by Chinese standards, hearty and jolly in rest and brutally energetic in action. They lead in person. With their divisions they clamber up mountainsides which would put most corpulent U.S. colonels hors de combat. In nearly four years of fighting, the young officers have mastered the arts of the field-silent de ployment, timely retreat, sudden concentration, plausible ambuscade, dependable supply of vegetable camouflage. Lacking artillery, they still know when and how they ought to use artillery...
...from Algeria to Vichy flew the trim-mustached little Commander of the French North African Army, General Maxime Weygand, for conferences with Marshal Henri Philippe Petain and other chiefs of state. Behind closed doors spruce little General Weygand collided with Vichy's chief contact man with the Nazis, sly little Vice Premier Admiral Jean François Darlan. Their collision was heard outside the closed doors and reverberated in diplomatic circles for days...
Reluctant to hide her light under a bushel of style traditions, trim-bodied Cinemactress Paulette Goddard tried to set a new Hollywood style by turning up for a formal dinner date in "evening shorts." They were formalized by sequins and a decorous cape...
...union looks the other way. One reason: Biago Casciano, first horn and librarian of the orchestra, is president of the union local. He is also a barber. When Pianist Marcus Gordon arrived in El Paso to play with the symphony, he dropped into the barbershop for a trim, was amazed at being asked some shrewd questions about phrasing in the concerto of the evening...