Word: trimming
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Having heard that some angry farmers were planning a march on Washington this winter, trim, efficient, cheerful Superintendent Pelham D. Glassford of the Washington police, who handled the B. E. F. peacefully until the Army butted in, went three weeks ago to the District of Columbia Commissioners, asked for ''undisputed authority to evacuate any army of indigents after their Constitutional rights of petition have been exercised.'' Last week he was looking...
With the exception of Jack Grady, who will be kept out of the game with Dartmouth tomorrow with a severe cold and an old hurdling injury, Coach Casey will put into the field a team in excellent physical trim for the first of four games in the long uphill climb toward the Yale climax...
...University annually publishes a catalogue known as the "Announcement of the Courses of Instruction." By its trim green covers, by the promise of order given in the lines, "An Index of Departments . . . on the Back Page of the Cover," the uninitiated is led to expect Prussian organization, Dutch neatness on its pages. But the booklet, like many others things of New England, is deceptive in its simplicity; it may be likened to a New Hampshire barn, prim, spick and span to the eye, but filled with a maze, a jungle, of mingled odds and ends, in which the stranger...
...Glen Ridge, N. J., in revenge for a town zoning ordinance preventing her from renting her house to an oil company, Mrs. Daniel A. Warren hung red flannels in the front yard, painted the front steps red with green risers, the first story bright orange-yellow, the trim of the front door bright blue, the door green, the upper story red, white, green and blue, striped and smeared. She hung two big dummies against the . wall, painted a donkey, an elephant, seven jackasses, a sign "Speak gently, shush, KISS ME," a figure of blindfolded Justice saying...
...Leningrad this system has already been applied to several streets. Last year buildings on both sides of the Nevski Prospect (No. 1 Tsarist boulevard) were painted. The former palace of Grand Duke Dmitri* was daubed brilliant red with glaring white trim. Leningrad's central ticket office was repainted three times in different color schemes until the Soviet was satisfied that it is "right." Civic gangs of plumbers and carpenters trailed after the painters, fixing people's water faucets, floors, roofs at inconvenient times with maximum gusto...