Word: fittingness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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AS a fitting eulogy of a glorious ruling House whose power is no more, comes Bertita Harding's Imperial Twilight, a stirring account of the lives of Karl and Zita of Hapsburg. Purposely avoiding more than a bare outline of the historical and political background, the author focuses almost her...
On a London church two posters appeared last week. One read, PRAY FOR PEACE. THIS CHURCH IS OPEN ALL DAY; the other, IF YOUR KNEES KNOCK, KNEEL ON THEM. But Europe's war-struck millions needed no such calls to prayer. From the crowded churches of a whole continent...
As was fitting, France, with the greater Army, entrusted its mission to a general; England, with the greater fleet, sent an admiral. Russia, eager to be shown that the two democracies can back up their word if they choose to keep it, appointed its highest officers to receive the mission...
Putting in a false front tooth is a major feat in dental engineering. Usually dentists get around the difficulty by fitting their patients with removable bridges, often uncomfortable. Sometimes they pare down neighboring teeth, use them as anchors for a permanent bridge.
In a fitting climax to a busy season of publicity-seeking, members of the Lampoon, college temperance organ, set fire to their fortress and turned in a 4-11 alarm to the Cambridge fire department on Thursday night.