Word: fitfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Havana five days prior. Senator Walsh had married Senora Mina Perez Chaumont de Truffin, a wealthy Cuban widow (TIME, March 6). For all his 73 years and a stiff back the grim, grey Montanan was feeling fine & fit for a short honeymoon. From Havana he flew with his plump bride, 20 years his junior, to Miami where he received official notification of his appointment to the Roosevelt Cabinet. He called at the hospital where Chicago's Mayor Cermak lay close to death. Going on to Daytona Beach Senator Walsh, an honest Dry, told newshawks that under him the Department...
...five hours talking second-string patronage with his political prime minister, Jim Farley. Jesse Isador Straus, Claude Bowers, Henry Morgenthau Jr., James Michael Curley, Howard Bruce, Homer Cummings, Clark Howell, John Cohen were some of the names the President-elect juggled about on paper to see how they might fit into the new administration. William Hartman Woodin, the new Secretary of the Treasury, arrived from Manhattan to discuss the banking situation in the light of the Maryland moratorium (see p. 18). And on his heels entered Daniel Calhoun Roper, new Secretary of Commerce, with fresh plans for wringing larger savings...
...Autun. Thence for sixty odd years the imperturbable Talleyrand stood at the right elbow of every government that held sway in Paris. Through the maze of diplomacy and intrigue he walked, smiling ironically, drinking deeply and often of the champagne of life. M. Bernard de Lacombe has seen fit to describe him as the "chess player," calmly watching the whole turmoil of unrestrained human ambitions, toying in his delicate fingers the reins of Kingdom, Republic, and Empire...
...tall man with a $10 bill in his hand stood surveying an apple vendor's stand on Detroit's Woodward Avenue one day last week. "It's a shame," he said, "that an apple won't fit a pay telephone. I've been trying to call my wife since last night to tell her I wouldn't be home." After he explained that he was unable to get his bill changed anywhere in Detroit, the apple vendor loaned him a nickel...
...Schaaf might merely have died during a crisis in his professional life. Jimmy Walker's brother Dr. William H. Walker, who was last week under charges of splitting fees on municipal medical work, had-as medical attache of the New York Boxing Commission-certified that Schaaf was fit to fight...