Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WHEN the "Biography of the Life of Manuel" was reprinted in its final form, Mr. Cabell saw fit to introduce each volume with a special commentary. In these notes, which are now collected in "Preface to the Past", he talks amiably of authorship and his reputation for pornography, of the regrettable failure of his books to make money for their publishers and the curious willingness of the House of McBride to continue publishing them. With some wonder he remarks that his books have rarely failed to evoke passionately unfavorable criticism, unadulterated by the least rationality, from all the better-thought...
...scholarship neither entails any obligation to Herr Hanfstaengl nor evinces approval of his character. This scholarship is an opportunity for intimate investigation into the thoughts and customs of Europe; and to construe any other meaning is to slander the student's intelligence. The very purpose of education is to fit the mind for just this sort of impartial investigation. Certainly a Harvard education does not leave the mind so contracted that there is no available space for new ideas, nor so vacant that all unfamiliar conceptions find immediate and permanent abode there. Liberalism is not merely a sacred ratification...
Figure Skating is patterned on the ballet. To make sure their figures would fit perfectly the music which accompanied them, World Champion Pair Skaters Ernst Baier, 29-year-old Berlin architect, and Maxi Herber, his 16-year-old Munich protégée, last autumn had themselves photographed in action by a cinema camera, sent the film to a composer who devised a score to match their action. This painstaking process justified itself last week. The seven judges soberly awarded Skaters Herber & Baier first prize for a demonstration which supplied in finish whatever it lacked in spontaneity. Viennese Bandleader...
Next week Dr. Heinrich Bruening will continue the crusade that the Irish journalist began in 1865. The former German chancellor's history, his faith in a democratic government for Germany, and his detest of "emotional politics" that give rise to dictatorship, well fit him for his task. The Godkin spirit flourishes at the age of seventy...
That His Majesty remains personally fit & fleet. King Edward showed by donning shorts in which he ran last week from Fort Belvedere three miles to Windsor Lodge. Most dignified and well received was the King's first message to Parliament, read by the Comptroller of His Majesty's Household, thrifty Sir George Penny...