Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sewanee: an ex-AP-er, Smith, whose Yankee tang was all-too-revealing, as managing editor: a chief editorial writer . . . who had a Harvard accent. I was a cub reporter, imported from Washington where I had worked with Suter. Even my Washington accent was too mildly Southern to fit in well in Nashville. Those were still the Damned Yankee days...
...nature of the American Democracy to harbor a governing class . . . and yet most of us could wish that politics in this country attracted more of those men and women whose upbringing and education best fit them for public office. . . . It is . . . in order to applaud a young man like Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. . . . and to see in his ambition to emulate the example of his illustrious grandfather a portent of brighter days. For Mr. Lodge, we believe, is of the kind of stuff to leaven the lump of mediocrity that burdens our national councils...
Definitely not fit for public print, but locked up with the Geneva souvenirs of League Statesmen, is the Italian Government's official white paper on Ethiopian customs (TIME, Sept. 16). Copies reaching the U. S. last week satisfied curiosity as to what strong-stomached, peasant-born French Premier Pierre Laval was looking at when he remarked to Captain Eden, with a shrug, "Nice, aren't they...
...severe critic of the Nazis and had been expelled from Germany last year, were inclined to believe that Author Lewis had got his picture of a modern dictatorship at second hand, imagining a U. S. totalitarian state cut so closely on the German model that it could not fit the U. S. at any point. And readers of It Can't Happen Here who feel that almost anything can happen in the U. S. are likely to be convinced that it cannot happen in quite the way Author Lewis describes...
Standing high in the tower in the Freshman practice field, Slade supervises and thinks out on the spot the manipuations of the band on the field below him. A three hour practice is usually more than sufficient to fit the band for the Saturday performance...