Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next the powder went off under Crane himself. The president of the A.F.L. International Association of Fire Fighters sent him a telegram from Washington asking him to resign as the International's vice president. Crane with consummate audacity replied: "It is indeed unfortunate . . . that you see fit to indulge in petty politics . . ." He was suspended forthwith. But the New York local of the union seemed perfectly content to keep him on as its president...
...Tight Fit. As a youth, Escher knocked about Europe making prints that were ordinary enough to be used for tourist ads. The abstract mosaics of Spain's Alhambra changed his bent. Fascinated by the mosaics' flat, tight geometry, he set himself the task of making equally tight, equally geometrical and yet representational pictures. That meant fitting recognizable shapes together as neatly as tiles and alternating them to create flat patterns. Compared to some of the problems he has since set himself, it was easy...
...Lemon Drop Kid (Paramount) undertakes some drastic tailoring to fit a Damon Runyon fable to the measure of Bob Hope. The result is distinctly secondhand Runyon, but it is first-rate Hope...
...state. His wife, Luisa, is a spiritualist; Amelia, his young daughter, is a Catholic bigot; his elder son, Pedro, is a black marketeer, pimp, and Falangist; and his younger son, Juan, is a Communist. Don Antolin is a socialist and a liberal, which makes it difficult for him to fit into the surly, squabbling family which has resented his absence for the past dozen years. All four feel that things would have gene much better had he not fled. Each sees his return only as a means to exploit him for a selfish end. His wife wants...
...yourself be happy!" cries Hayden to himself, and falls in love, first with the city of Florence, and second with a Midwestern female scholar named Dr. Olivia Lomond. The affair with Olivia reaches its decisive stage in a chilly mountain inn. Gushes Hayden: "I'm not fit to love you!" Counters Olivia: "The wild highlander in me has come to life again . . . thank God. Dearest Hayden . . . quit smothering yourself...