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Word: fitfully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recommendations of the Council Committee are carried out, the whole scholarship system will become increasingly valuable, and men more fit for responsibility will be produced. To those whose time and effort went into the report should go the appreciation of the whole college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COUNCIL REPORT | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

...another occasion she slammed a door on her hand. Neither accident made her cry. She has, however, a normal small girl's maternal instinct. When she picked up her favorite doll and the doll's arm came off in her hand, she burst into a fit of hysterical sobs. It took half an hour to calm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Peewee's Progress | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

...obvious answer is that the legislature, controlled by the powerful mill interests, has seen fit to object to the probing finger of publicity on its most tender spot--conditions in the mills. As in the West Virginia coal mines of a few years back, and the Tennessee mines and Louisiana sugar plantations of today, the working conditions of the men and women employed is often appalling. The Moody case is an instance of the rigorous censorship which is kept on all unfavorable reports of what is going on below the Mason-Dixon Line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "FREE SPEECH IN CAROLINA" | 4/24/1936 | See Source »

What with the journalistic invective that greeted the arrival of the watered-down fit for Boston version of Tobacco Road, assailing it on grounds of rank indecency, and the very fact that it had been adjusted for the adolescent minds of the Hub city, the play which ran so long in New York will probably soon fade here. Crowded to the rafters on the first two nights by prurient sensation hunters, the theatre was only half filled on Friday, and unless a sudden renaissance is experienced, Henry Hull and Company had better make tracks elsewhere...

Author: By J. A. F., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 4/21/1936 | See Source »

...himself as a definite stage personality rather than a funny Broadway tap dancer. Called upon to impersonate a WPA music teacher who winds up as a master of ballet, his genuine charm and humor are instantly apparent. In fact, he and his teammate, pretty golden Doris Carson, seem to fit into that important theatrical niche vacated by the late Marilyn Miller & Jack Donahue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Play in Manhattan: On Your Toes | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

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