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...Travelers Aid attendant will invite you to use her telephone instead of the pay-booth. She is Winston-Salem's first hostess and sets the pace for hospitality. Climbing a steep green hill you arrive in the city's centre, where a huge factory, trim and modernized, notifies you at once of the city's presiding power: REYNOLDS...
...with but 10 bullets each) or during the whole war (75 for Fonck, the first 32 without permitting a single bullet-hole in his own plane). His long light hair lies smoothly on his broad Alsatian forehead. His hands are quick, eyes alert, his whole body in the fighting trim that he believes is essential to flying in peace or war. Now, of course, he wears civilian clothes, but his military smartness still crops out, as when press photographers caught him in his shirt-sleeves and suspenders at Roosevelt Field a fortnight ago. He was "ashamed," tried to suppress...
...four words are to be found in Webster's New International Dictionary. "Stramash," meaning "disturbance, ruction, broil," was applied to chronic political contentions in France. "Jimp," which has five meanings, among them (adjectively) "neat, spruce, trim," was applied to the leg of the original of Mark Twain's "Becky Thatcher." "Musnud" is the pillow or cushioned seat sat upon by an oriental potentate; was employed by TIME,-somewhat pedantically- to a university or seat-of-learning. "Kudos," of Greek derivation, means "praise, glory," was used in reference to honorary college degrees.-ED. Hibbard Flayed...
Fiat,* largest automobile company in Europe and largest Italian industrial concern, has long poured over the Continent its gleaming metal spawn, big Fiats and little Fiats, trim town cars with square lights and snub noses, Baby Fiats that are playthings for South American debutantes, and cars like the huge grey road lizards in which Il Duce speeds from camp to campagna. The Fiat company's ten factories make also tractors, forgings, castings, Diesel engines, electricity; employ 32,000 men; sold 40,000 cars last year; reached gross sales of $50,000,000 and net profits of almost...
...President awaited serenely the adjournment of Congress, smug and trim in the cool White House. He told Reporters that he enjoyed the lassitudinous Washington climate during July and August. However, he added, he believed in getting away for a little while, if only for the sake of change in environment, that, if the Capitol were in the Adirondacks, he would leave just the same. News arrived, simultaneously with the President's announcement, that one Andrew Bishop, who lives near the Coolidge summer camp, had frozen his ears on a frosty night last week...