Word: trimming
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...That evening Jesse Jones went to a gala party of Washington's hail-fellow Alfalfa Club, but his heart was not in the fun. His Texas temper, tender from years of being left alone, still twitched and writhed. He bumped smack into the Washington Post's publisher, trim, high-domed Eugene Meyer...
With her steam-plumed whistle barking, the low, trim Lake tanker Paratex moved down Toledo's Maumee River, cleared Cedar Point, and pushed her blunt bow towards Detroit. The Great Lakes shipping season was open-a month ahead of time on Lake Erie, but none too early. For this year all records must be broken...
Artistically, the House boats two trim Georgian courts lorded over by the spiring bell tower. Its panelled library contains exceptional economics and poetry collections and an undisputed record library...
...Government has leaned over backward to maintain friendly relations with Germany: last week it suppressed ten newspapers which had printed documented accounts of German concentration-camp brutalities in Norway. An Army of 30 highly trained divisions, under General Ivar Holmquist, is tough and ready after winter exercises. The trim little Swedish Navy under Vice Admiral Fabian Tamm was on the alert. But the suspense was painful...
...small, trim-mustached man who looks like a blend of Adolphe Menjou and Anthony Eden, Claudio Arrau at 38 is an old hand in the concert field. As a lad of 20 he made a short U.S. tour in 1924, but failed to go over, and left with a poor opinion of U.S. musical taste. Europe promptly claimed him. Until the war, Pianist Arrau was content to divide his lucrative concert time between Europe and South America, playing 125 concerts a year...