Word: fitfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Censorship at Harvard has always been non-existent. The University has seen fit to allow students through newspapers and periodicals to express their views, with the one reservation that the facts and presentation be accurate. The University has not found the system of complete freedom of speech embarrassment. On the contrary suggestions of students have always been given consideration and often found valuable...
...doubt the highly sensitive Democratic ego, unused to power and position, would pull a fit of hysteria at even a hint that the chief of the clan was not perfect, but others of ordinary sanity are not upset when facts are mentioned...
...tragic huskiness. Sometimes her throat plays unfortunate tricks. Last fortnight in Detroit, where she gave a reading, Miss Millay was repeatedly interrupted by coughing in the audience. Each time she would pause, roundly upbraid the coughers. Toward the end of her reading Miss Millay herself was seized by a fit of coughing, to the undisguised glee of her audience...
...Cardozo pointed out in an essay, the job of the courts is to apply the Constitution and the law in cases where they are obviously meant to apply. In other cases it may be necessary for the Court to search for the intent that was behind a law to fit a particular case. Then interpretation comes into play. It comes still more into prominence when a case arises which the law has not foreseen and about which the framers of the law had really no intention. In such cases the personal inclinations of the nine Justices assume vast importance...
...half a dozen lines and a fake Oriental dance as her total assignment for the first three reels, one closeup scene registering jealousy and another registering defiance in the last four. At the climax the dog-store owner has been put on the spot by Raft who, in a fit of remorse, goes through a hail of police bullets to save his rival's life and die in a moire silk dressing gown at the foot of a joss-house idol...