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Word: fitfully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...straw that broke John Harvard's back was when Saradjeff, as a final gesture of despair, threw an epileptic fit in the Lowell House Common Room. He was sent down to Stillman where he decided that Professor Coolidge and his flock had poisoned him. As an antidote, he drank a bottle of ink. At this point, Lowell House threw in the rag and persuaded Saradjeff to return to his native land...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/8/1939 | See Source »

...think that of all the pictures I've worked in, I preferred 'Gabriel Over The White House,' the veteran actor said. "But just like so many other Hollywood productions this was produced to fit the times. Although it was very interesting and a propos at the time, it could never prove a success today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Walter Huston Condemns Hollywood's Long Hours, Easy Money for Actors | 3/7/1939 | See Source »

...York World-Telegram appeared the following advertisement: "Washington's birthday is more than toy hatchets and silver dollar tossing. . . . We can hang our flags in a proud land, rich and free. We should hang out a large flag on every proper occasion. A large flag to fit a large country. America is an expansive country. Wanamaker's is an expansive store. Our flags are inexpansive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 6, 1939 | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...Ruth, have you seen that awful new wimple she got? In the first place it don't fit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/2/1939 | See Source »

James Morcom's idea of a Fourteenth Century castle looks like a clapboarded New England barn, and his revolving set often does not fit the scene, sequences. Millia Davenport's costumes never get beyond the phony chain-mail stage, and her costume for Hotspur's wife in the first act is one of the most atrocious bits of ugly design to appear for some time...

Author: By V. F. Jr., | Title: The Playgoer | 2/28/1939 | See Source »

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