Word: fitfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pained that the War Department had seen fit to appeal first to the newspapers for news of its heroes, Aviators Post 743 of the American Legion in Manhattan- only post of Wartime flyers-was able to give most of the "missing" addresses. Ace Swaab, for instance, may be reached through the Hotel Roosevelt, New York. Ace Howard C. Knotts, credited with six planes, is in the law firm of Knotts & Knotts of Springfield, Ill., was secretary of last year's National Air Legislation Congress. Ace Arthur Ray Brooks has had his picture in many a rotogravure supplement as pilot...
...fit night out for man or beast!" grinned a Secret Service guard stamping the snow off his boots. Meanwhile Mr. Southgate, deftly casting aside his outer garment, advanced, bowed stiffly to the King, crisply said: "I have been directed by the President to extend to Your Majesty and to Her Majesty the Queen a most cordial welcome to the United States. . .. The President and Mrs. Hoover . . . are looking forward with the keenest anticipation to Your Majesties' visit to Washington...
Whatever liberties Funnyman Will Rogers may permit himself in conversation, the homely humor of his syndicated daily squibs is lily-pure, fit for consumption by all the households reached by clean home newspapers. Hence, Rogers-readers were mildly astonished one day last week to find in his "letter to the editor" a comment which might have passed unnoticed in scores of other colyums but which, for Rogers, verged on the "raw." Returning from Managua to the U. S. via Venezuela by plane, Will Rogers wrote...
...down and killed by an automobile in Baltimore. In his pocket was found a card reading: "This is to certify that I hereby permit my husband to go where he pleases, drink what he pleases and furthermore to enjoy the company of any lady or ladies he sees fit, as I know he is a good judge. I want him to enjoy life while he can as I know he is going to be dead a long, long time.-Mrs. Rhoda Hood...
...shall achieve in time--To let the punishment fit the Crime--The punishment fit the Crime...