Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speeches printed in the Congressional Record never get made on the floor of Congress; they are merely so-called "extension of remarks" by lawmakers seized with a second thought, a desire to fool some of the voters, or a fit of after-hours loquacity. The system has many faults, but at least it spared Congressmen from listening to Mississippi's ranting Dixie Demagogue John Rankin, who filled 13 columns of the Congressional Record one day this month with a debased attack on FEPC. Sample quote...
...cups of coffee a day, all made in a Cory coffeemaker. One afternoon last week, Jim Alsdorf bubbled with excitement as he showed off another product which can be used after each cup is emptied. It is the "Cory Made Maid," a 23-lb. electric dishwasher, compact enough to fit on the kitchen drainboard, cheap enough ($89.95) to undersell most existing electric models by more than 50%. With it, chipper Jim Alsdorf cockily predicted that he would revolutionize the home-dishwasher market...
...20th Century-Fox). When Willie went marching off, the little town of Punxsutawney gave him a sendoff worthy of its first citizen to enlist in World War II. When Willie's troop train stopped in Punxsutawney one month later, the town gave him a welcome fit for a man on his way to war. But when the Army bogged him down at a nearby airfield while all his buddies went overseas, the neighbors began cutting him, his father wanted him out of sight, and even the dogs barked at him when he slunk through the streets...
...years, ever since -as "Miss North Carolina of 1934"-she stopped off in Washington on her way to New York. Arthur, visibly impressed, pays her the highest tribute he can make to womanhood: "She's wholesome." And he adds: "I knew she wouldn't fit into the kind of razzmatazz she was headed...
However badly his description may fit some of poetry's modern navel-contem-platers, Britain's Poet Laureate at least has remained true to his credo. From the day in 1902 when his first slim volume of Salt-Water Ballads rolled off a London press, John Masefield the poet has kept close companionship with the hearts of a generation of British and U.S. readers. In rhythms as forthright as the beat of a yeoman's pulse and lines as graceful as the curtsy of a tall East Indiaman in the wallow of a seaway, his verses have...