Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statement of the police who were the only representatives to view the play objected only to "some of the dialogue." That deletion of "some of the dialogue" might have rendered the play fit for presentation does not appear to have occurred to Mr. Casey. This method is generally followed in the case of professional plays that bring objectional lines to the Boston stage. Perhaps it makes a difference who is producing the play...
Because the Congresses have refused to obey the Constitution and reapportion popular representation to fit the changes of U. S. population since 1910, many a State has more Representatives than it is proportionately entitled to and many another has less. Representative Fenn of Connecticut has long and often proposed a bill which, in its present form, would keep the House membership at 435 and reapportion the seats on the basis of the 1930 census, when taken. Estimates are that California would benefit most, gaining six seats. Next would be Michigan, gaining four seats; then Ohio, 3; New Jersey & Texas...
...news that's fit to print" was ever a satisfactory program for Joseph Pulitzer, vivid genius of latter-day U. S. journalism. He insisted that a newspaper must be not only a compendium of affairs but also a champion of ideals; and it was that theory which made his Post-Dispatch, founded 50 years ago in St. Louis, an astonishing success...
...then a silken rustling between the customs men. They were pulling out of one Herter trunk an astonishing quantity of flowered cerise silk, lined with baby blue. The material eventually resolved itself into a gentleman's dressing gown of prodigious proportions, a dressing gown from Paris to fit only such a monster figure as that of William Hanford ("Big Bill") Edwards. This article, which was a present for Mr. Edwards, was nowhere mentioned in the Herter's declaration...
Despite her insignificance, Paraguay has produced one villain fit to rank with Nero, Caligula and the madder Tsars of Russia. This memorable and awful personage, Francisco Lopez, was the son of the benevolent dictator Carlos Antonio Lopez (1840-62) who erected Paraguay into a prosperous and flourishing state. Upon the death of his father Villain Lopez plunged his fatherland into a series of wars so insane and ruinous that the population of 1,300,000 in 1862 bled itself down in eight years to less than 30,000 able-bodied men and 200,000 women, children, gaffers. Perhaps never before...