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Word: fittingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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As fashion eight years ago offered a memorial (oblique hats) to France's late ex-Empress Eugenie, Vogue last week proposed a similar memorial to Britain's late slim, beauteous, Danish-born Queen Alexandra, wife of Edward VII. Vogue's memorial: wasp waists, a fitting accompaniment to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 8, 1939 | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Juárez (Warner Bros.). When Juárez (pronounced "Hwa'-race") had its world premiere in Manhattan's Hollywood Theatre last week, C. I. O.'s John Llewellyn Lewis showed up in a starched shirt. Before the picture started, everyone stood for The Star-Spangled Banner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 8, 1939 | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

"That's terrible," he bellowed at a girl who was disrobing in front of him. "I want tight-fitting, flesh-colored bathing suits not that junk!"

Author: By Staff Reporter, | Title: No Aquacade Nudity, Says Miss Holm; Likes Harvard Men, Wants to See Them | 5/5/1939 | See Source »

This slothfulness can arise only from ignorance of the size of the evil. The tutoring poison has permeated the whole organism; it leaves little untouched. Examinations are no test of knowledge when the examined have had the questions spotted or stolen for them in advance by academic hijackers and have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Tutoring School Racket | 4/18/1939 | See Source »

Announced Washington Tailor George Tudor after fitting William Orville Douglas, new Supreme Court Justice, for his judicial robes: "Justice Douglas has a nice figure . . . he was easy."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 17, 1939 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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