Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...absorption of the residential areas of a growing city by the commercial is an old story, but there still remain in Cambridge many alternate regions for such a move; and it is to be hoped that the Board of Appeals, by whom the issue will be decided, will see fit to spare the one in question...
...Royal Academy, Augustus John was certainly disgusted by another incident which likewise did much to enlarge his fame. He had painted a picture of famed Lord Leverhulme, soap tycoon. When Lord Leverhulme went to put this portrait in his safe, he found that the canvas was too big to fit. Therefore he ordered the head and neck to be cut off, had the rest labelled "the remainder of the portrait painted by Augustus John," and entrusted it to a servant who, through an idiotic mistake, mailed it to the artist. Said Augustus John: "The grossest, most deliberately gratuitous insult...
...would misunderstand. To the archer the cry he-he means no silly giggle: it is the traditional cry of one archer to another in the distance. To the listener a pair is two; not so to the archer, for in toxophily three is a pair. To nock is to fit the string into the notch at the arrow's end. To fletch is to feather an arrow. In Queen Elizabeth's time (1533-1603) archery flourished, waned. Not until 1781 and the organization of the Royal Toxophilites Society, was there a revival...
...slap in the face or other physical insult will occasionally stop a hysteric fit. But such are dangerous to many victims. Their hysteria is too deeply ground in character, in brain, in nerves. The deep hysteric may pretend practically every disease, every deformity known to medicine. Some women want children so badly that they actually become bloated. The stigmata frequently reported seen on religious exaltes are hysteric in origin. If the hysteric's malingering continues long the simulated infirmity may cause actual disease. Only the wiliest of doctors can discern the hysteric's true state. And only...
...bellowed and blustered militarism through the War; but she was quietly relieved when the draft board doctors said he really wasn't fit to fight...