Word: fitfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bock pointed out that work was now in progress to fit out two front wings of the former Dramatic Club roost to prepare for additional offices for the Hygiene Department. In the event that the Dramatic Club also vacates the rear wing, then that too will be taken over, he said...
...that the change will be convulsive and violent, and also in believing that a dictatorship will be necessary. . . . When a reactionary advocates drastic changes in the status quo, and proposes to set up a dictatorship to protect these changes (from revolutionaries!) then the reactionary becomes a fascist. You cannot fit Roosevelt into any of these categories. He is, by elimination, if in no other way, a liberal...
...Methodists the world over, this week was Aldersgate Week, and fit 8:45 p.m. on May 24, the 200th anniversary of the warming of John Wesley, many a Methodist church was to hold special services. In England, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York were to preach in recognition of Wesley's contributions to their church. Last Sunday, throughout the U. S., some 5,000 churches of all denominations picked up an NBC broadcast dramatizing John Wesley's life...
Since Lawrin's owner had not seen fit to nominate him for the Preakness (for which nominations closed a month ago) and since Stagehand was not in condition to run, Dauber was a 3-to-2 favorite-chiefly because of his magnificent stretch run in the Kentucky Derby. Through the rain and mist, 25,000 dripping spectators watched Dauber start unostentatiously, as a well-mannered Whitney colt would be expected to do. But going into the backstretch, Dauber began to make a spectacle of himself-not in front, but trailing behind (in next to last place in the field...
...singing. Shouting in English "I can't go on," she rushed from the stage, fell in a dead faint. From a stage box stepped the Viennese soprano, Hilde Konetzni, due to make her London debut the next night. Dressmakers hastily pinned up Diva Lehmann's costumes to fit Hilde Konetzni's shorter, plumper figure. Whereupon Pinch-Hitter Konetzni carried on where Diva Lehmann left off, was roundly cheered at the opera's close. One man asked for his money back...