Word: fitfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tailor sued Valentine Edward Charles Browne. Viscount Castlerosse, beefy director of London newspapers, for ?75 ($260) for two dinner suits of blue herringbone and blue tropical hopsack, two extra pairs of trousers and six white waistcoats, ordered for wear on his 1932 U. S. visit. Defense: misfit ("only fit for . . . the Zoo"). To the tailor's testimony that his shape was hard to fit and he could not stand still, Lord Castlerosse replied: "I have been in the Guards and I am told I am an expert at standing still." An expert witness called the coats...
...great basic human, relations, between man and woman, and between parent and child, there have been changes so striking that when we read novels of a century ago we feel we are in another world; but when we try to fit laws to society as it is we meet with stubborn resistance. It is as if men were frightened to see how far they have departed from the ways of their fathers and how impossible lit was to go back, and had therefore determined to hold fast to something. Religion, paternal authority, the family, all may go; but at least...
...Michael Arlen characters go when, so far as the literary public is concerned, they are thoroughly dead. Christopher Strong, derived from a novel by Gilbert ("Swankau") Frankau, is about imitation Arlen characters who can be recognized as such by their fondness for treasure hunts, evening clothes and "keeping fit." It is another caste-mark of such persons that they have nothing better to do than indulge their romantic emotions; the habit gets them into typical difficulties in this picture. A lady aviator (Katharine Hepburn) meets Sir Christopher Strong, M. P. (Colin Clive), at a treasure hunt. He is a faithful...
...laboratory work changes in character. He has learned by this time the fundamental procedures and the little tricks of operation. Now he begins to bring his own ideas into play. Certain general problems are pointed out to him, and he is given freedom to investigate them as he sees fit. His technique develops into an art, and the serious men show a friendly rivalry in developing now refinements of procedure...
Only with difficulty does Odysseus persuade Neoptolemus to adopt his plan of tricking Philoctetes with lies, and the trust which the latter shows the son of his old friend Achilles soon arouses the already troubled conscience of the young man. When Philoctetes in a fit of agony intrusts to him the coveted bow and arrows Neoptolemus refuses to be false to his friend or to himself, and tells him the truth. There follows a long struggle between Philoctetes' determination never to go to Troy and Neoptolemus' attempts to persuade him. Odysseus seeks to employ violence, and finally drives Neoptolemus...