Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Solution offered to the Association: let white medical leaders help Negro hospitals improve until they are fit to train internes; let new Negro hospitals be developed, particularly in northern Negro communities, make no discrimination between white and Negro medical students or internes, in schools or hospitals...
...Acting Secretary General J. A. M. C. Avenol, flustered in the absence of his chief, suave, assured Sir Eric Drummond, madly canvassed Geneva's second-hand shops until he found a massive chair heavy with carvings and bright red plush into which the king of Egypt would decorously fit. The democratic, glass-walled Council Chamber of the Secretariat was made into a temporary throne-room, memoranda of etiquette were issued to the press, warning them to appear in sombre and respectful clothes. Wives of League officials were cautioned against offending Moslem sensibilities with bare arms, short skirts...
...Ralston and Dix kiss while tribesmen's 'bullets spatter around them. At intervals they speak with as much conviction as they can bombastic lines shopworn 'by ten years of theatrical use. Miss Ralston is beautiful and a good actress. Dix is handsome but doesn't fit his part. Silliest shot: a horrible painting of the late Lord Kitchener indicated as a suggestion for transmitting Kitchener's stencil "Carry on" to Actress Ralston after her attempted jump. Like many contemporary film people, Esther Ralston took her first part as a stage baby. She and her parents...
...Well in advance, Lucrezia Bori scanned the countryside, found a house to fit her artistic requirements in fashionable Lake Forest. Bori operas: La Rondine, L'Amore del Tre Re, Mignon, La Vida Breve, The Secret of Suzanne...
...there never was any necessity for retreating. Our policy, now as ever, has been based on a desire to live at peace with the people of China. . . . Certain people however invented a theory regarding the government's policy at the time it came into power, and now to fit the theory to the facts, talk of a 'retreat...