Word: fitfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heart Strain. A firm believer that one can always buck up and that "the war was won on the playing fields of Eton" is Eton's gallant Eden. He was up next day and on a train for London, dictating to worried aides. He seemed fit, though tired, when Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon met him at the station. Two days later the Lord Privy Seal's doctors told him he was suffering from serious heart strain, made him cancel all engagements for six weeks. With pert and pretty Mrs. Eden hovering at his bedside, Captain Eden...
...World and Hearst's Journal, each trying to outdo the other in yellowness. Then it was that Adolph Ochs introduced to New York the editorial formula which was to shape the journalistic standards of the entire country. With his new-coined slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print," he announced a "clean, dignified and trustworthy" newspaper for "thoughtful, pure-minded people...
...questions seriously what effect even 150,000 pacificists can have on the jealousies and ambitions which send nations into the death-throes of the battle field. If the United States feels in a few years that the undeveloped resources in China are essential to her prosperity and Japan sees fit to disagree with her, a country jammed to the borders with peace-loving citizens will be unable to prevent a military clash...
...Episcopalians are decidedly the best livers, eating, smoking and drinking as they see fit. The Catholic Church does not breed so many merry monks as some people think, but Catholic priests may smoke cigarets, take a nip now & then and let their waistlines go in middle age. In the evangelical clergy austerity prevails, and of the large evangelical denominations the one which least countenances clerical laxity is the Methodist Episcopal Church. Methodist asceticism reached its apogee in 1924 when a Methodist conference voted to insert in the Church's Book of Discipline the following: "We [ministers and laymen] . . . record...
...ring the buzzer for Mrs. Gonzales or send for Max; it is very wearing. Once they came and told her that Kitty was acting very funny. " 'Oh, where?' I asked plaintively. I didn't want to cope." But she did: she watched Kitty have a fit, finally had to call Max. Kitty died...