Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Names have a special significance which seems either to mold the persons who bear them into the proper types or, perhaps, names just happen to fit the individuals to whom they belong. "Homer" seems to have that certain something which can be attached to no other and the fact that Edward Everett Horton has been able to grasp the distinction of the name "Homer Bits", makes his current picture an unbounded success...
...very well, for Marcum will win plenty of games for us, as will Ostermeuller, who seems to have recovered fully from last year's injuries. With these two, and Grove and Ferrell we have four excellent starting pitchers. I also am keeping my eye on several newcomers who should fit in well as relief...
...others among the billion and a half of human beings in the rest of the world must and shall learn from and be subject to them. "I recognize that these words which I have chosen with deliberation will not prove popular in any nation that chooses to fit this shoe to its foot. . . . World peace and world goodwill are blocked by only ten or 15% of the world's population. . . . And that is why even efforts to continue the existing limits on naval armaments into the years to come show such little current success. . . . "In the field of international...
Nations outside the Americas were invited by President Roosevelt in his State of the Union address to Congress last week (see p. 9) to stick out their feet for the purpose of seeing whether the shoes of his oratory would fit them...
...President announced: "This is not the first time that Mr. Smith had been invited to be an overnight guest at the White House. At least once a year, Mr. Smith has been invited to pass either a night or a week-end there. But he never saw fit to accept even one of these invitations...