Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...form of unemployment relief. It gives lectures. It publishes books. It encourages talent. And it is no more democratic than the Italian Government. Founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and her good friend Juliana Force, with a board of directors of their own choosing, run the gallery exactly as they see fit. Every other year they give an Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting. The third such exhibition opened last week, with one painting apiece from 153 artists...
...unwilling to risk inventing fantasies of their own, prefer to adapt classics. This fact makes it hard to believe that any adaptation of Victor Herbert's famed operetta would amount to more than a ridiculous calamity. Fortunately, Producer Hal Roach, well-versed in the art of gag comedies, saw fit to throw most of his original material out the studio window, retaining only three Herbert songs. What remains is a queer blend of Alice in Wonderland, Mother Goose, Laurel & Hardy, and Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. That the result makes no sense whatever in no way diminishes...
...year-old Gloria Vanderbilt to her aunt, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney (TIME, Nov. 26, et ante). "Calculated to destroy her health and neglectful of her moral, spiritual and mental education," Justice Carew ruled, had been Gloria's life with her glittering young widowed mother, Mrs. Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt. "Fit, suitable and appropriate" to his mind had been the child's life for the past two years at Mrs. Whitney's Old Westbury, L. I. estate...
...only has all this come to pass, but the Company has further seen fit to give everyone who has a telephone a different number on a different exchange. Where before stood University and Porter, here are Trowbridge, Eliot, and Kirkland. Although at first this seems merely a further play on the part of the Company to befuddle the subscriber and make him mad, it is really a very logical institution...
...students see in this process only a means of either pleasantly spanning the years of their youth or of acquiring a technical background for a career in the world. Why they want to engage in one occupation rather than another, what values in life are important, and how they fit into the plan of the universe are questions that are neglected either from sheer indifference or a failing to appreciate their significance...