Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fit to publish this note, kindly do not mention my name as I have spent these last years endeavoring to avoid unwelcome notoriety and the gushing missives of American flappers incurred because of the fact that I happen to be the only American officer in the Legion and of the false romantic reputation which the Legion has acquired in America due both to the absurd cinema productions which have attempted to picture our life and the mendacious writings of Christopher Wren...
...Never in the history of Harvard was so much stress put upon the knowledge acquired from books as at present. It would seem that the authorities believe that study will thoroughly fit a man for all the problems of life. Some of us know the great benefits arising from so-called 'outside activities'-a hard, close game calling on brain as well as body for all there is and then some; a stiff pull on the river and a lost race, and also that sympathy for the man supposed to be responsible, which will help carry...
When months are cold, placid Donna Rachele Mussolini dwells with her children in Milan; but with approaching spring she moves out to the Mussolini estate at Forli, where, each summer, Il Duce indulges in a brief fit of farm labor which he calls "fighting the battle of the grain." At such times, and during the Christmas and Easter visits of Signor Mussolini to Milan, it is possible that he is persuaded, cajoled, nagged. But he is only known to have yielded once. On this occasion-just prior to the birth of Babe Romano-Donna Mussolini begged and received a decree...
...Most Catholic Majesty is thought to agree with Dictator Primo de Rivera that none of the four Spanish Infantes (sons of the King) are physically fit to inherit the Throne. For their weaknesses and infirmities His Majesty is understood to blame not his own ardent self, but Her Majesty. He is said to have tested this theory by begetting, under the rose, certain quite robust offspring...
Second in line for the Spanish Throne is Don Jaime, 19, a thickset, powerfully athletic youth, but congenitally deaf and mute. He now "hears" by "lip reading,"' and has been taught to make intelligible sounds; but Spaniards scarcely deem him fit to be their King...