Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attendant and is now in Bellevue Hospital. A woman who had a small finger infection was studiously disregarded until the infection had spread throughout her entire arm. An epileptic who, as the attendant put it, "stopped tipping when her money ran low," was deserted in the throes of a fit. The story runs on in this manner to tell of sick being left to die, of aged beaten into submission, of inedible food, of medication by inexperienced and brutal attendants; no horror is absent, and the fact that it is told by the attendants themselves is eloquent proof...
...Monday) morning's CRIMSON is indeed startling. I refer, of course, to the notice concerning "brother Kelton" in the Playgoer's column on page four. Considering how feminine a young lady Pert Kelton was only a picture or two ago, I find it quite remarkable that "he" can now fit a gangster part perfectly, crack a crib with "his" underlings...
...substance of "Come in at the Door: is woven around the effect, on the life of a sensitive and intelligent man, of witnessing as a child the horrible execution of a negro who in a fit of madness had beaten out the brains of a helpless dwarf. That the negro nurse of the child, Choster Hurry, is the mistress of his father and mother of his six dusky half-brothers and half-sisters, that the uncle with whom Chostor goes to live is tattooed all over his body and married to a syphilitic harlot who haggles with her husband nightly...
...week the President had not taken a stand for or against Senator Wagner's bill to set up a permanent Labor Board (see p. 11). Nonetheless Washington would not be surprised to see the bill pass, with some amendments that would not completely outlaw company unions. The bill fits in with the President's idea of the New Deal, but whether it will fit in with his legislative program is another matter...
...very definition, can effect no change for which his impecunious tenants are unable to compensate him. The vast area of tottering, overcrowded structures common to all American cities cannot be patched or braced; it must eventually be scrapped in toto and replaced by a group of modern apartments fit for human habitation...