Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good. So well were some of his advisers satisfied with this form of campaigning-including, last week, his deft anticipation of Alf Landon's crop insurance pronouncements (see p. 16)-that they had no wish for him to change. But nonaggressive policy, no matter how successful, does not fit the born temperament of Franklin Roosevelt. Last week therefore, the hour struck when the candidate's desire to be up and doing could no longer be restrained...
...Maritime Commission, gave it some $200,000,000 cash and powers over shipping similar to the Interstate Commerce Commission's powers over rail roads. Last week, when President Roosevelt "temporarily" appointed three* of the five Commissioners, their major duty was to make the U. S. Merchant Marine fit for competitive war with all comers on the high seas. This work lies ahead of them. Meantime, under their noses last week raged a bitter internecine war within the U. S. Merchant Marine itself, about which the Commission soon found it could do very little...
Paragraphs like this, appearing daily last week under the heading DRESS TO FIT YOUR TYPE on the woman's page of the Hearst Chicago Herald & Examiner, differed from the accepted standards of such journalism in two notable respects: 1) readers applying for the questionnaire were charged 25? for answers; 2) name signed to the column was that of no hack journalist, but of Irene Castle McLaughlin, America's pre-War Glamor Girl, now a Chicago socialite and that city's most noted dog-lover. From each 25? fee collected, Mrs. McLaughlin gets a portion. Questioners are also...
...clothes fit him perfectly, and he has nothing about him that does not appear average and conservative...
...scores of manuscripts already completed. His problem (and Max Perkins's) is to fit them in with other things he has done. A lot of his work has been wasted because they can't see how to fit it in with the rest. But with a great deal of good luck the larger part of it will eventually find publication and most of the gaps in Mr. Wolfe's great catalogue of America will be filled...