Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...born in Harrodsburg, Ky., studied in her native state and at Wellesley, went to Paris where she studied Art, miniature painting, jewel working. She exhibited in the Paris Salon in 1904-5. A woman of tremendous energy, she has made her life fit her needs and has insisted upon being active. She is much interested in the cinema-several of her novels and stories having been transferred to the screen. Now she is planning to have a projector installed in her room so that she can see the newer films...
...most tragic of all spectacles is that of a man with a magnificent idea which cannot succeed, because the world is not in a fit condition to receive it. The latest of these glorious failures is Mahatma Gandhi, who for the last few years has made the power of British rule in India tremble to its foundations. Now finally comes the news that he has withdrawn into retirement, broken in health and broken in spirit...
...yond old playground, fit spot whereon to commemorate the manliness which there was nurtured, shall soon rise, a noble monument which for generations will give convincing answer to such shallow doubts: for over its gates will be written: "In memory of the sons of Harvard who died for their country." The future of the University will not be unworthy of its past...
Dresses to fit every mood of Gloria Swanson...
June 24 and Aida correspond with the opening of the Democratic National Convention in Manhattan. If the delegates do not attend Aida en masse, music lovers may suspect them of being "fit for treasons, spoils and stratagems." There will be 12,000 choice seats for sale at $1, considerably less than a politician need pay for an evening's entertainment elsewhere in Manhattan...