Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alone in its glory stands the one poem that the editors have seen fit to publish this month: "The Eternal Lovers" surely deserves the confidence placed in it by the editors. The treatment of the sonnet form is unusual and effective. The subject matter is conventional but not trite, and the poem possesses lines of splendid Imagery. It is a very competent bit of work...
...Sullivan '28 and J. N. Barbee '28, who have both been nursing sore arms for the last few weeks, were able to join the squad in a light workout during the last practice session. Both players are expected to be fit for action by the end of the week. Sullivan will probably fill his regular berth at shortstop in the Notre Dame game Saturday. If he does, G. E. Donaghy '29 will be shifted to the hot corner. Barbee, it was reported, may receive the call for mound duty against the westerners...
...years ago a meagre, slight dress maker, she crouched with pins in her mouth at the feet of a fat woman. The client was standing on a low fitting-stool, and from her rotund torso hung the drapes of a negligee that stubbornly would not seem stylish. Dressmaker Lane Bryant sat back on her heels and studied the paunchiness; she stood up and walked meditatively around it. She saw where she could alter the hang, and, stooping over, with swift fingers pinned folds here, there. The negligee fit smartly. Lane Bryant slipped it off her customer; basted it; stitched...
...help. Four hundred "white collar'' men applied; ten were hired. United States Shares Corporation, investment trust organizers, advertised for security salesmen. Two hundred "white collar" men applied; 15 were hired tentatively. All the other "white collar" jobless were inept for the work for which they imagined themselves fit...
...winning a Federal court decision, the managers of the International Safety Razor Corp. last week hastened to advertise the sale of their corporate stock. The American Safety Razor Corp. had sued the company for infringement and unfair trade practices because International had advertised that the blades it made would fit "Gem," "Ever-Ready"' and "Star" holders (all made by Ameri-can), and that its holders would use "Gem," "Ever-Ready" and "Star" blades. American Safety Razor was incorporated in Virginia in 1919. William Crapo Durant is one of its directors. It makes 100,000,000 blades a year. Only Gillette...