Word: misfit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...involved with a Manhattan bucket-shop (TIME, July 1). At a South Georgia Methodist conference last week the Rev. Bascom Anthony of Thomasville, got a resolution adopted to reduce the tenure of service of Methodist Bishops from life to four years. Cried Mr. Anthony: "The church occasionally elects a misfit as a Bishop. Without mentioning any names I'll say we have one now. If he isn't a straight out old-fashioned gambler, I wouldn't know one if I met him on the road labeled with box car letters...
...temporary influence of college. A youth of eighteen or twenty who prides himself on being one of these types will not be convinced of his error, if it be an error, by merely doing as he wishes for a year before college. And better that he be a misfit for a few years in college and find himself at last, than that he be a misfit for life. What he judges to be strong points not to be chipped off by the college process of being rounded into a billiard ball may be gaps which college could fill in. Moreover...
...refuse to contribute a dime to your present misfit university with its caste system and sexy characteristics. But to show you I am acting in good faith, I will agree to leave Cornell a million dollars if the fraternity and club system is completely abolished and the women students are given a separate college of their...
Despite the faults which captious critics have discovered in his writings, the fame of Author Hardy has never wavered or grown thin. While other authors have been hailed, forgotten, rediscovered, his honor has had a steady, splendid growth. Perhaps there is a rocky artifice in his style, a misfit melodrama in the way he arranges a thunderstorm to enlarge the climax of every tragedy, a false fatality in the coincidence that so often generates his plots. But these faults are rooted in deeper virtues: an intense sincerity, unconcerned with merely literary effects, a profound, pitying pessimism, a relentless humanism that...
...suspicion rather than of good will on the part of the public in its educational programs, of never having given a musical entertainment as specified in the second clause of the will, of never having assisted the Metropolitan Opera Company. Harshest of criticism was leveled at Secretary Noble, "a misfit ruling with an iron hand," cleaver always to the policy of utmost secrecy...