Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senators did not get much satisfaction at the White House, at least they went forth with the appearance of it. They appointed Senator George Wharton Pepper to discover a child fit for adoption and to propose a contract under which it would be entirely severed from its former parent and made the Republican Party's very...
...French Government. Rumors to the effect that he was a dying man, and therefore already politically dead, had but one effect: M. Caillaux brought suit for 100,000 francs against a Paris journal for libelous report of his ill-health, took necessary steps to prove that he was physically fit and capable of taking an active part in public affairs...
...Rome: "Do as you think fit with him." The Italian Government had him seized, confiscated his papers, put them at the disposal of the French...
...announcement of H. Grindell Mathews, English inventor, of his "diabolical rays" for destroying ships or airplanes at long distance aroused a chorus of skeptics on both sides of the water. Mr. Mathews has not yet seen fit to report his researches to the Royal Society or other scientific bodies, and he has yet to produce the effects he claims outside of a small laboratory. He has been offered the use of the well-equipped laboratories of the Rhone Engineering Works, Lyons, by M. Eugene Royer, their director, himself an inventor. He also has French financial backing, but he declares...
...Eduard Benes, CzechoSlovakian Foreign Minister, arrived in Rome fresh from his conversations with M. Momtchilo Nintchitch, Foreign Minister of Yugo-Slavia. Not long was it before Eduard and Benito were locked in conclave. Not long after that came the news that each liked the other and had seen fit to draw up a treaty of friendship between their respective countries: 1) State of friendship is established, both countries are to examine all differences which may arise between them in a spirit of friendship and tolerance...