Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Prosecutor John C. Kelley read his next issue of TIME (May 9) he must there have found reported that Mrs Massie's fit of temper on the witness stand where she tore up evidence did the defense no good with the jury." Shame may have colored the prosecutor's neck but court observers thought they detected rage in his voice and manner...
...women shrank from the characterization, were indignant about the injustice of it. We tried to think of ways to persuade public and press to give us a fairer, more accurate description. We failed. 'Wet' was brief, 'Wet' was easy, 'Wet' would fit neatly into headlines. And so we were fated to be 'Wets' to the end of the story...
...issue was retired at over par, so that $154,000,000 was actually invested in the company. Last week the market value of this $154,000,000 was $1,787,000. Practically all of the money received was transferred to Europe and used by Herr Kreuger as he saw fit. Not until last week did Lee, Higginson & Co.'s partners hear that International Match's chief assets are $75,000,000 owed it by little known Continental Investment Co. of Liechtenstein and $15,000,000 by Garanta Co. of Hol land. Apparently both these companies used the money to some...
...English Weekly, resembling in general format other English weeklies, is the old New Age in not impenetrable disguise.* The editorial introduction urges the substitution of a financial-economic system cut to fit the present age of plenty in place of one that is tailored by the banking system expressly for a machine-murdered age of want. Contributors include Hilaire Belloc and Grand Duchess Marie of Russia. Will Dyson, onetime cartoonist of the Labor Party's Daily Herald, prints a scathing etching; Paul Banks reviews the drama, Storm Jameson, novels. From a "Western Newspaper Man" Editor Orage has received...
...University of Chicago, where 65% of the students are totally or partially selfsupporting, 1,500 were granted college loans this year, twice as many as in previous years. The university has hunted student jobs by telephone and a house-to-house canvass, has instituted training courses to fit the students for the work obtained for them. More prosperous students have raised a fund for use in cases of extreme need...