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Word: fittingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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His consuming activity in the past few stories, that of "taking care" of friends at state expense, has provided a fitting climax to a long and thoroughly unenviable career. But even had he given a sugary pill at the end of his doctoring of the state, he could not overcome...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOODBYE, MR. CURLEY | 1/6/1937 | See Source »

A crowd packed Manhattan's Carnegie Hall one night last winter as it always did when Arturo Toscanini was leading the Philharmonic. A skinny young man in ill-fitting clothes and thick glasses came on to play two piano concertos. He looked unimpressive, shy as a rabbit. But before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Serkin's Second | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

Your dramatization on the air of the story of Grace Bedell and Abraham Lincoln was splendid, a vivid and fitting tribute to the kindliness of that great man and a touching finale to the quiet drama of my grandmother's life.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 30, 1936 | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

TO Louis Philippe, who genially reminded him of former oaths of allegiance under other masters, it is reported that Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, on swearing loyalty in 1830, replied, "Sire, you are the thirteenth!" This little folk-tale, though exaggerated in fact, is quite accurate in spirit, and its...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 11/27/1936 | See Source »

California has the highest mountains, deepest valleys, best climate, loveliest women, mightiest men, craziest cults and most enthusiastic boosters of any State in the Union. It is therefore fitting that this superlative State should have the world's most extraordinary bridge, opened last week in true Californian style with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Bay Bridge | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

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