Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philadelphia, one Mrs. Mary C. Bletcher, artist, stopped a mail wagon, climbed to the driver's seat, clutched the reins, demanded the driver's arrest for driving a lame horse. Traffic jammed for 45 minutes. Police veterinaries declared the horse fit...
Rome she finds "a dirty little anthill of Italian filth." Caesar, her lover, "talks like a very king of kings, but acts like a delicatessen-storekeeper." He has a fit of epilepsy: "Fancy sharing your bed with a man who is in the habit of turning into a corpse." She meets Calpurnia, Caesar's wife. Calpurnia thanks her "for providing me with such an excellent excuse to exercise freely whatever poor talents I possess." The nature of these talents is reflected in Cleopatra's diary: "Received this morning a jar of preserved roses from Calpurnia...
Died. James Clarkson Gillmore, 72, last Commodore in the U. S. Navy (rank became extinct in 1899); in Washington, D. C. When Filipinos took him prisoner during the Spanish-American War he was lined up to be shot, refused to have his hands tied, said: "It is not a fit way for an officer and gentleman to die." His captors debated, were interrupted by a rescue party, finally released...
Like author, like character. Author Walker does his best graphic writing when he talks about Poles, Hunyaks, "bohunks" in general. Again and again he stops his story to look at them, trying always to fit the horror and immensity of their tasks into some scheme. Shaking light from the furnaces illuminates the stupid, pitiful anger of their faces. Author Walker describes "the look of the woman's eyes whose husband fell into a steel ladle and was melted down a year later- they didn't tell her, she found out afterwards - into an ingot...
...likened to a poplar with its clinging shoots, where it could have been made an oak with spreading branches. The teller has rather sought to show how marvellously romance, like a flag-pole, can cleave space than bow completely life can fulfill, clothe, and likewise protect itself, with fit and simple foliage...