Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under Ion the Great and his son Ion, the technique of "Bratianu Elections" became notorious throughout Europe. It included not only victory, when the Bratianu Premier wished to continue in power, but also defeat and the election of a puppet leader when the Dynasty of Bratianu saw fit to lie low temporarily. Dino Bratianu who now comes to power holds thousands of mortgage-ridden peasants in the hollow of his hand through his presidency of Rumania's national land bank, the Kredit Rural...
...Burden of Government Extravagance falling upon the Middle Class Taxpayer. Perhaps Mr. Douglas will one day understand that the government's budget is not like the budget of an individual or a corporation; that the government controls the printing office and can therefore use it if it sees fit, whether under the camouflage of an unbalanced budget or under no camouflage...
Violin prodigies are much more common than piano prodigies, for small violinists can begin on small-sized instruments which fit their fingers. Louis Persinger, who taught Yehudi Menuhin and Ruggiero Ricci, has a violin pupil who created an unusual stir this week...
...mountainous Clydesdales of Anheuser-Busch's famed advertising team. Most numerous and most popular of modern show classes are the jumpers. Anyone who knows a martingale from a bridoon knows that show jumpers are seldom good mounts for the hunting field, that not one steeplechaser in 100 is fit to enter a show ring. Steeplechasers are notoriously slovenly jumpers. Show horses spend too much time popping neatly up and down over fences to have either the speed or the stamina for a long day in the field...
Rache had her day, Sunday; and yesterday while Der Marschall und Der Gefreite were wreathed in smiles and the granulation of a subservient Press, the remainder of a worried world hastened to assess the importance of a statistically perfect national revival. A great many have seen fit to rant in humanitarian terminology. The election, so goes the story, was a tragic farce, the picture of a people baring its neck to the heel of a despot. The claim is easily substantiated, but it is a close approach to stupidity to inveigh particularly upon a means when confronted by a commanding...