Word: fitfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dream Too Much (RKO) is an operatic formula picture, cut to fit the coloratura voice, the small, neat form, the pretty face and the sharp French accent of Lily Pons. The operatic basis for its plot is the one which enables Miss Pons to carol Caro Nome from Rigoletto to her provincial music teacher, to make a big splash in Paris, to exhibit her navel in Hindu undress as she negotiates the spectacular Bell Song from Lakmé. Introducing a second formula, Henry Fonda, a U. S. musician who thinks he can compose opera, picks up Miss Pons, performs...
When the Reading Period was inaugurated it was intended that the material presented should be contracted to fit the abbreviated lecture schedule. General interest topics for special study were to be assigned for Reading Period Work...
...will be as necessary and important as ever. But it is proposed that these new chairs shall be endowed under terms of gift that will not rivet them immovably in one spot on the map of the field of learning. When this is done, it will be possible to fit a chair to a man, instead of squeezing a man into a fixed chair in a designated and perhaps too narrow subject. It is proposed to reserve these new chairs for men who are working on the frontiers of knowledge, and in such a way that they cross the conventional...
...banker at the baccarat table in the sporting club at Monte Carlo is reserved for M. Gallard of Paris who, arriving late, proceeds to break the bank, taking home his winnings in a suitcase which he has brought for the purpose. What follows is an adventure story designed to fit Ronald Colman's elegant, off-hand romanticism. Will he go back to the tables? Hunchbacks, horseshoes and other lucky symbols strewn in his path by the backers of the sporting club fail to lure him. On the Blue Express back to Paris he meets Joan Bennett, falls in love...
...story of life with the natives, whose fantastic modesty and equally fantastic generosity delighted him. North Greenland Eskimos considered it impolite to mention their own names, always waited for someone else to identify them. When a host offered his guests food, he first apologized that it was not fit to eat. They believed that human beings could be trusted in all relationships except the sexual, consequently could not understand ideas of faithful marriages. Hunters exchanged wives freely, often committed adultery, but never without asking permission of the husband. Husbands were also amused and puzzled when white sailors sneaked around their...