Word: fitly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...music and lyrics in neat sets of looseleaf notebooks and Manila folders, and he follows a chart of the book's plot for spotting his songs. The only top-ranking Broadway composer besides Irving Berlin who writes his own lyrics, he usually begins with a song title to fit the plot situation, then finds his melody, and later fits the words to it. He begins with the last line and works backward. Close at hand is an exhaustive library of rhyming and foreign dictionaries (he speaks French, German, Spanish and Italian), geographical guides and other reference books...
...staff as "commissars." The city editors, Eric Bert and Joe Clark, are little more than routing clerks. The commissars censor every bit of copy, iron out minor kinks in the party line, or send the stories and headlines back to be rewritten if the facts don't fit the party's position of the day. For Worker staffers and contributors-Agnes Smedley, Rob Hall, Howard Fast et al.-the line is as inevitable and as obvious in news story, editorial or literary column as red rogue's yarn-the colored strand that runs through Royal Navy cordage...
...flatly refused to return home. He also refused to pay for the funeral. "Look," he said, as his baffled sons tried to guess whom they had buried, "I've had all my teeth out. My plates fit. I feel fine. After 44 years I got tired of living with Jennie. This is the life...
...days later Acheson appeared before U.S. Senators. Even though he gave a clear impression that there would be no change in U.S. policy, Le Monde of Paris saw fit to comment in general: ". . . The symptoms of a new situation are appearing...
...repellent. His battle to save his black sheep from the meat block and get it to the county fair might have become moderately tiresome, except for timely interruptions for ballad and cartoon sequences. Beulah Bondi, a Bible-quoting grandmother, and the late Harry Carey, as a kindly farmer, fit almost perfectly into the Hollywood concept of uppercrust hillbillydom...