Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chief," said the guzzler, "what kind of mineral water is this here contaminated water? I never heard of it before, and this is the first time I seen it advertised." The official crawled away. Next day the old sign was replaced with another: THIS WATER IS ROTTEN. NOT FIT TO DRINK...
Whether it was in a fit of repentance or not, the Saturday Evening Post last week published a wandering, anecdotal, sentimental eulogy of Jackson and His Beloved Rachel by one John Trotwood Moore. The eulogy was spread over five pages...
...Lady Who Lied. Lewis Stone, Nita Naldi and Virginia Valli contrive to hoist this hackneyed happening up by its boot straps and make it casually entertaining. It is a yarn of Venice and the Sahara in which the lady marries the wrong man in a fit of pique. She has to renounce her lover to have his life and wait a few months for the husband to be murdered...
What is to be the work that Mr. Anderson "sees fit" to carry on? Mr. Anderson explained volubly, but without particulars. His program is more or less conveyed by the following statement...
...celluloid were dismal. Keystone directors feared that he was overpaid, offered to cancel the contract. Chaplin told Roscoe Arbuckle, the now deposed cinema clown, that he needed a pair of shoes. Arbuckle tossed him a pair of his own enormous brogues. "There you are, man," he said. "Perfect fit!" Chaplin put them on, cocked his battered derby over his ear, twisted the ends of his prim mustache. His face was very sad. He attempted a jaunty walk which became, inevitably, a heart-breaking waddle. He put his hand on the seat of his trousers, spun on his heel. Arbuckle told...