Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether the U.S. and the Russians sat down at a conference table would matter a lot less than whether the U.S. could, in the next few months, assume a bold leadership to get Western Union moving and to work out a German policy that would fit in with Western Union...
...Soviets, and I think they will be very careful to avoid the responsibility for war . . . There does, however, seem to be some Czech urgency in preparing for a possible conflict. . . Czech heavy industry is now working mostly for the Russians, producing not finished articles but certain parts that will fit into armament...
Goldwyn: An arranger! Why, that's a man who has to arrange your music, who has to fit it to the instruments...
...Spring, Stravinsky's best ballet scores, were commissioned. He has composed a polka for elephants for the Ringling Brothers, a Scherzo á la Russe for Paul Whiteman, Ballet Scenes for Billy Rose, an Ebony Concerto for Woody Herman and his jazzband. Scherzo á la Russe was written to fit one side of a Whiteman record (says Stravinsky: "He played it very badly. He has a very famous name but he is a very bad musician...
Only once is there a mention in the book of the sweat that most reporters distill trying to find words to fit their big news. Charles A. Lindbergh handed a scoop and a Pulitzer prize to old friend Lauren ("Deac") Lyman of the New York Times when he sailed into exile (1935) after his baby was kidnaped. All afternoon, Lyman sweated over 13 different leads before, in desperation, he settled on a routine Times lead, such as he had written a thousand times...