Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United States "prohibition navy" is rapidly undergoing evolution to fit it for the task of catching rum runners on the Atlantic. It is soon to consist of twelve vessels; four revenue cutters, the Seneca, Seminole, Gresham and Manhattan, and eight speed boats now on the ways which will act as scouts...
...devotees away from the swells in the stalls. Thus, if you don't get your eye gouged out in the rush, you obtain what would be in I New York a $2.75 orchestra seat for a good deal less. The pit need present no complexity if you are in fit form to fight...
...line-up of the second eight has been changed slightly to fit the new conditions, and the crews are now seated as follows...
...Significance. Stella Dallas is an excellently written novel dealing with a genuine problem?the problem of the woman who marries, as the Victorians called it, " above her station," and does her best to fit into her new environment but cannot, while her children can. The central character of Stella is exceedingly well drawn, without obvious propagandizing or a straining for flashy effect. Stella is first of all a human being, not a type, and the same is almost as true of the other principal characters ? even the somewhat pluperfect and superaesthetic Mrs. Morrison...
...they feel as to relative justice and intelli gence shown in the awards. Meanwhile the weary judges, let us hope, are recuperating in some pleasant clime unvexed by newspaper-clippings. It must be the devil of a business, hunting among contemporary books and plays for a Cinderella to fit the little glass slipper...