Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herbert Hoover's philosophy that American recovery waited on World recovery. It was Franklin Roosevelt's answer that American recovery will produce World recovery, or at any rate that a stronger domestic economy would fit us for the trade enlargements that would come out of World recovery...
...only son, for love of a pretty Swedish debutante, became Mr. Bernadotte. That left the old King the four fine sons of his eldest son, Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf, enough for any monarch. Last week it looked as if there were not four but three grandsons fit for the throne...
...cleverly lit display of wine glasses, bowls, plates, bottles, candlesticks, vases; a tableful of heavy molded "architectural" glass for cornices, tiles, columns. Prize of the show was a slender glass fountain by Sydney B. Waugh, 1929 Prix de Rome winner. Other exhibits: a pair of glass slippers made to fit Gloria Swanson; a replica of Steuben's 16 by 8 in. glass casket in which, in Santo Domingo City, repose a few handfuls of ashes that were once supposed to be Christopher Columbus...
...subjected to 'government by insult?' The episode is of importance in relation to the constantly growing tendencies of the Roosevelt Administration to resent criticism, however fair, and to slander all who dare cross the path of its policies. . . . We hope that Mr. Roosevelt will see fit to apologize to the Press of the nation for this gross insult...
...used to sleeping two and three in a bed, but night alarms made her nerves jumpy. At the Gietradis house, where the whole family slept in one room, she was warned to look out for the old man, but what disturbed her rest was the epileptic lodger throwing a fit. On a visit to the disreputable nearby settlement of Seldom Seen, where the women were all prostitutes and the men mostly black, a half-crazy Negress attacked her in the middle of the night with a razor. Young Johnny, Slovakian miner out on strike, fell in love with her, confessed...