Word: congruous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tira's manners in this scene are congruous with her past. A honky-tonk dancer whose behavior at all times suggests that she is on her way to bed, she has improved her station in life by performing in a wild animal act and putting her head in a lion's mouth. As an important circus celebrity she continues to make advances to most of the men she meets. When young Kirk (Kent Taylor) kisses the inside of her hand, she rolls her eyes and growls: "You got me!" After ejecting Kirk's fiancee, Tira receives another...
...financially one must compare his lot with that of other members of the social community." The professor accordingly stacks himself up against his $25,000 a year classmate in business and considers himself poor. "The two are not to be compared, however, and efforts to make them financially congruous are entirely misdirected," says the writer. From a money standpoint the teacher is poor, but what of it? "He enters the profession with his eyes open...