Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Crime Commission, author of the current model for habitual-offender crime laws,? said: "It is ridiculous to exclude from a jury persons who read the newspapers. A citizen who doesn't read the newspapers is not an intelligent citizen and he probably is not fit to be on a jury." Mr. Baumes urged that judges be empowered to select juries, leaving counsel the chance to show cause why any selection is unsuitable...
...private line whose number is known only to his trusted and less humorous friends, is by no means strange. During the day and night, according to the well-known legislator, the line has been busy with calls from travelling citizens who on finding themselves in his city, have seen fit to force upon him their opinions of the law which bears his name. Those who have suffered from strange greetings over the wire on April Fool's day alone, will realize the feelings of one who is likely to be aroused at any time of the night to hear drunken...
Imagine being seated in the jury box of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Justice Frederick Lincoln Siddons presiding, and quizzed by immensely professional lawyers to see if you were a fit person to decide the guilt or innocence of the Messrs. Fall and Sinclair...
...signify that he accepted his reinstatement and endorsement with fit humility, Senator Reed mounted the platform at a fair in Sedalia, Mo., and, with never a mention of his own ambitions, intoned the political creed of a "rank-and-file" Democrat. The crowd, of course, caught Reed fever and again silver-tipped Senator Reed was acclaimed Missouri's candidate, promised a solid delegation...
...edition of one of the greatest of all American books is remarkable for the illustrations in wood-cut by Mr. Eric Fitch Daglish. The New Statesman (London) says of him "since Berwick died, in 1812, there have been no wood-cuts of birds produced in this country which are fit to be compared for skill and faithfulness to the work, of Mr. Daglish." Edition limited to 500 copies for America...