Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Dr. Bruce firmly seated on the Throne, Provincial Secretary Harry Nixon addressed Ontario's Legislators with the proper viceregal arrogance: "I am commanded by His Honor the Lieutenant Governor to state that he does not see fit to declare the cause of his summoning the present Legislature of the province until a Speaker shall have been chosen according to law, but today at a subsequent hour His Honor will declare the cause of his calling this Legislature...
...Wouldn't this bill accomplish the same thing if it were only one line long and stated merely that the President was authorized to spend $4,000.000,000 as he saw fit to relieve distress...
...work in the country, decorating dozens of hotels, churches, country houses, with screens, grilles, gateways, lanterns. Swords and armor are his hobby; in a few respects his reference library is supposed to equal that of the Metropolitan Museum. Not until last August did he have a shop he considered fit to invite his fellow members to, but the spotless, simple grey building to which the armor collectors went last week seemed like a sort of New Deal blacksmith's heaven. There are showers and a roof where his 35 craftsmen and associates can take sun baths. Light pours...
...absurd to claim that rich men who are excused for one reason or another from a certain variety of taxes should pay them anyway, out of the goodness of their hearts, they will spend their money as they see most fit. Considering that the government is made up of politicians who are more interested in keeping people at work in the industrial system than in keeping up the educational facilities of the country, donations to the government would undoubtedly not have lessened the curtailment which Dr. Dewey has found. Obviously the fact that rich men did not pay income taxes...
...glow on, my Harvard brethren, and go ye in bands of six or more to the Copley Theatre. There ye are allowed, nay, even urged, to exert your exuberance in any manner short of breaking chairs. Fit buit for your witty sallies is that touching dra-a-ama, resurrected in all its pristine glory from P.T. Barnum's American Museum, vintage 18 34,--I speak of "The Drunkard, or the Fallen Saved". Ye may hiss the deep-dyed villian, Lawyer Cribbs; ye may shout "Look out," or "Youse is a viper," as he prepares to enmesh in his toils that...