Word: adaptabilities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...definite style note is the new high-crowned hats, adaptations of Arab fezzes, pill boxes, Cossack and clown hats, now sweeping France as copies of the Camel cigaret slouch hat are sweeping U. S. department stores. According to smartchart scouts, the originator of the season's high hattery is the lovely Comtesse Francois-Guillaume de Maigret who persuaded Maria Guy to adapt a Tunisian Chechia on her return from an African vacation, and wore it with devastating success at Parisian race tracks. Other milliners hurried in with other high hats. ¶ Plaid evening dresses are enormously popular. In colors...
There are many material advantages accompanying a CRIMSON competition. First of all, the candidate learns how to think, and to adapt his thinking to a new medium. Secondly there are the contacts with prominent University officials and news sources. Then there is the required ability to concentrate, and to budget one's time in order to make the ends of competition and study meet. And finally there may be the primrose bed, the seat of the mighty, of the domineering Legrees who call themselves editors; and with that position all the accoutrements of authority, of social life, of free movies...
...wholly satisfied with the Tutorial System. If would be a sad commentary on the System and myself if I were. But neither am I sure that drastic changes are in order. The system is relatively young, and expansive, and must gradually adapt itself to changing conditions. The chief difficulty of course is the expense. There should be many more tutors than there are at present. But tutors cost money and must also be given some liope of advancement. The next greatest difficulty is not with the system but with the students. Most students, I suppose, do not care to assume...
Although the acoustics of the now Memorial chapel are quite satisfactory as far as preaching is concerned, they are entirely unsuited for the most perfect performance of unaccompanied choral pieces. The architects, claiming that it was impossible to adapt the acoustic properties to both music and speaking, chose to adapt them to speaking, and hardly left the University a chance to say no. In order to prevent the reverberation and echoes of the speaker's voice, the ceiling of the nave was finished in rough plaster, and a heavy carpet, lying on a three-quarter inch hemp padding, was laid...
...theme of the picture in the problem of the custody of the child of a divorced or aspirated couple; this is a predicament common enough, yet little discussed on the stage, and it would in the proper hands adapt itself to masterly treatment. In "Blonde Venus" this theme is ruined by lurid, florid, tabloid handing which carries the mother from the arms of her Husband, to stardom in a revue, to prostitution, to stardom in a revue, to prostitution, to stardom in a revue, and with the leit motif of "a little child shall lead them," back to the arms...