Word: fitfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...house. When he became slightly more reconciled, an elaborate teepee was built for him. It must have been 20 feet across its circular, hardwood floor; the poles were of polished hardwood and the covering was gaudily decorated with Osage hieroglyphic figures. He conceded that this might be a fit place for a red man to sleep. Much later, he was induced to spend a night in the house. He lay down upon a bed but, when morning came, the mattress had been dragged to the floor and John slept there...
...Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, looking very solemn and very fit in spite of having celebrated his 75th birthday the day before, cast hardly a glance at his jam-packed courtroom as he took his seat. With a rustling of robes his Associates joined him. The Chief Justice, turning his head, gave a brief nod toward the right extremity of the bench. Associate Justice Owen J. Roberts, end man of the Court, took up a manuscript and began to read...
...from Plymouth in the Golden Hind, entered Magellan Strait, went plundering up the west coast of the New World. Laden with Spanish treasure, he pushed north in search of an Arctic passage back to England. One day in the spring of 1579, he sailed into a "convenient and fit harborough" somewhere near the future site of San Francisco. There he received the homage of native Indians and, according to his chaplain's account, nailed to a "faire great poste"a brass plaque claiming "Nova Albion"in the name of Her Majesty. Then Francis Drake sailed on west round...
...irresistibly boyish, which he sets out to be ad nauseam. Jean Harlow, on the other hand, thinks her whore job done if she glowers her way through the show and charges around squalling away in the most strident voice she can muster. Occasionally she sees fit to force the wannest of smiles, which can scarcely compensate anybody for all the termagancy he has witnessed...
...only fitting in a musical comedy, the story is built to fit the songs and dances and achieves just the proper melodramatic touch in doing so. The elder Strauss, his waltzes on the lips of all Europe, is jealous of his son who shows a talent equal to his own, even if in a style abhorrent to the father. He thwarts his son's ambitions to lead an orchestra and play the waltzes he fears may become more popular than his own. But he is in good turn himself thwarted in his machinations, by nothing less than the intrigues...