Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wilder. The Communists fairly danced and shrieked with rage. The Ludendorffists turned about and fixed the Diplomatic Gallery with a cold, calculating glare of insolence, shook their fists at the assembled diplomats. But nothing served to alter the cheerful mien of M. de Margerie, French Ambassador to .Germany. Pandemonium fit for a madhouse continued. In vain did the President rap his desk and tinkle his bell. Some minutes later he succeeded in reducing the noise to an excited drone and announced that the finals-vote on the Railroad Bill was 314 to 127. The Experts' Plan was virtually in effect...
They pay their fees, attend the lectures or not, as they see fit, sit in groups at the little inn over fish dinners and feasts of the intellect. During past weeks, among the lecturers have been: Sinclair Lewis (Bolshevism in books), Floyd Dell (psychology), Prof. Richard Swann Lull of Yale University (zoology...
...repeat that these matters must not be permitted to divert the attention of the public from the vital questions now before them. I venture, therefore, to express the hope that the nominee of the Republican Party will see fit by some explicit declaration to join in entirely removing this topic from the field of political debate...
...opinion of a growing number of Democrats and Independents Mr. John W. Davis is eminently fit to be President and the Democratic party could find no stronger candidate...
...Banks might well suffer, should their dividends be long cut or suspended. Their stock is held by the member banks, state or national. The latter must belong to the system under the law. But membership in the state banks is entirely optional, and many state banks have never seen fit to join the system, thereby decreasing the control and leadership of the system over the country's banking business. If Reserve Stock produced no dividends, state banks would scarcely be inclined to invest in it, as they would have to do in acquiring membership in the system...