Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is nothing prosaic about abrogating a contract," snapped Senator Wheeler. The Pittsburgh Coal Company's reasoning was that, though it agreed to pay union miners $7.50 per day, it did not agree to employ union miners any longer than it saw fit. It was employing non-union men before and after the signing of the agreement, with the unions' knowledge. When it reduced the non-union men's pay to $6 per day in 1925, and began replacing union men with non-union men it was, it claimed, "acting legally." According to Miner Lewis, this action...
Napoleon. Biographers are at their worst when they write about men whose deeds are too gigantic and too inherently theatrical to fit the neat and flashing patterns of the stage. Napoleon's hundred days were too dramatic for the drama. Forgetting this, B. Harrison Orkow, who previously wrote something called Milgrim's Progress, has made them into a tidy and pompous play, in which Lionel Atwill struts for what seems sometimes to be an interminable two and three quarter hours. At last, great days done, he expires in St. Helena. Pretty Selena Royle, in long becoming dresses, plays...
...judge each race by an absolute standard, and call one people art-loving, another frivolous, a third conservative--and such persons include most authors, from newspaper correspondents to popular biographers--have had rather a hard task in re-cutting and pasting together post-war Germany to make it fit into its pigeon-hole. In the war years, and previous to them, it was easy to list the Germans as militaristic, servile to rank and title, and later bloodthirsty committers of atrocities. But the last decade has found, in spite of the gloomy presages at Versailles, a peaceful, democratic, and very...
North of Milwaukee are two Wisconsin counties, Sheboygan and Manitowoc, and two ambitious German-born brothers, Charles S. Voight and Edward Voight. The two counties fit together nicely into one judicial circuit. The full-grown Brothers Voight cannot, however, be fitted together into the single circuit judgeship. So, since both Brothers Voight are determined to be circuit judge, political fratricide impends. Last fortnight bold Brother Edward Voight was reminding Sheboyganders and Manitowocians how he served five terms (1917-27) in the U. S. House of Representatives, ever faithful to La Follettism. Brother Charles S. Voight, on the other hand, happily...
...they did feature the type of news which this additional body of readers wanted and which the more dignified publications did not undertake to supply. While such an attempt as this is praise, worthy in every way, it is difficult to see just where the new style tabloid would fit in the scheme of things. The inevitable loss of circulation due to the suppression of the more sensational items of news could only be made up by invading the domain of the legitimate newspaper, and in that field competition is already too keen to offer much hope...