Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...since Dictators came recently into fashion has one married. Therefore the nuptials of Primo de Rivera loom as an unique event and focus the attention of alert, contemplative minds upon what manner of women are now deemed fit to be Dictators' wives...
Explaining further, the Chief Justice declared that if the Act had specified merely "persons" instead of "fit and qualified persons" the Supreme Court would have been obliged to rule that all human beings, including women, criminals and the insane, should be eligible for Canadian Senatorship...
Women are not "fit and qualified persons." So ruled the Supreme Court of Canada, last week, interpreting the British North America Act, which specifies that none but "fit and qualified persons" shall be eligible to become Canadian Senators...
...have been known to lose weight. So have lovers, who are supposed to dream more or less constantly about their beloved ones. But the idea of taking thought for the sole purpose of reducing weight is new. Caesar distrusted the lean man, so Shakespeare tells us, and thought him fit only for "treason, stratagems and spoils". But now he is raised in his fellow-man's estimation, and instead of a dagger in his belt he will more probably have a Phi Beta Kappa charm on his watch chain...
...course there is Borah, the Southern California flash, who may rise to any heights if he is fit." Coach Farrell Yold a CRIMSON representative in the first of a series of discussions on the Intercollegiates. But the rest of the field, while it is far from slow, is hardly in Borah's class...