Word: unfit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just to keep the anti-Sassenach franchise, the Irish Government in the same week banned as unfit for Eireannachs to read a book called The Threshold of Marriage. The book was published by the Church of England...
During 38 years in Mississippi politics Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo has waded through sloughs of scandal which would have sucked down a dozen ordinary politicians. In 1910, as a drink-cadging state legislator, he heard the State Senate pronounce him "unfit to sit with upright men." He was jailed in 1923 for refusing to testify in a seduction suit against his political sidekick, Governor Lee M. Russell. He divorced his wife; she accused him of cruelty and a succession of infidelities, publicly begged Mississippi's women to vote against...
...look at Marysville. Less than five miles from here there are 1,500 Negroes living in homes most of which are unfit for human habitation. . . . They live that way because they are forced to. We refuse to give them jobs in Marysville. Our city has eight major industries all of which refuse to employ Negroes. If we are really serious about this business of building a world of peace and establishing the Kingdom of God on earth, we had better begin right here in Marysville by making it possible for these people to secure jobs...
...drama of these people is that they have recoiled from drama, are unfit for drama-can only poke around in the cupboard of memories and might-have-been. That, too, is the pathos of them. But it is a pathos that Chekhov sharply rings with humor and partly punctures with insight. Always compassionate, he is never deceived. The wand he waves to evoke moods suddenly becomes a scalpel that lays motives bare. He sees all that is flabby-and all that is funny-in these people who make mournfulness their métier...
...needles at "$50 a jab." And to make it all practically unendurable, her own daughter, Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski, with a fortune of $4,500,000, refused to give her a penny. Things hadn't been so embarrassing since the time, twelve years ago, when she was loudly called unfit, and lost custody of Gloria. The tabloids made the most...