Word: unfitness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...displayed total disregard for the President's judgment by twice rejecting his first choice for this post, than, with implications of unbounded faith; it approved an unknown man without a murmur. the principle that any nominee offered by the President is to be accepted unless shown to be unfit may conduce to efficient administration. But to sanction a man's appointment to high office without knowing more than his name and address is unjustifiable neglect...
...steps to realize their true function as institutions of higher learning. There seems to be a general agreement to misunderstand Yale's recent action. The sons of Yale graduates are to be given preference only if they can fulfill the entrance requirements. Such limitation must, of course, debar the unfit and open limitless possibilities to those who can and will profit by their advantages. On the whole, this is the present trend in American colleges...
...unknown author of the Gillette razor advertisements writes good English, for it is "Kicky". Popular slogans, selling talks, and George Ade are the acme of literary perfection, and the unfortunate essayist or philosopher is tossed to the limbo of the unfit, for he cannot quality. Alas! the gods of yesterday are not the gods of tomorrow...
...that Otto H. Kahn, Chairman of the Metropolitan Opera Company, has invited Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, famed composers of jazz, to submit a jazz opera for production in the very throne room of music. Irving-Berlin would "give his right arm to do it," but feels technically unfit. Jerome Kern, who refused to try an opera six years ago, favors the scheme, whether he or another carries it out. George Gershwin, whose orchestral piece, A Rhapsody in Blue, is so far jazz's loftiest flight, is regarded as probably the best-equipped to comply with the demands...
...Holohan, senior class President, football player, "most popular cadet," was dismissed by the authorities on a charge of drinking intoxicating fluids. Already having certain "grievances" about the mess hall (allegedly suspicious-looking "wieners," chicken "unfit for food") some 250 of the 1,100 cadets signified their pain over Holohan's sentence by leaving the campus. Clemson alumni pleaded with the "strikers" to take their case before the trustees, as provided in the regulations; and though many of the students were obdurate, others yielded, held a meeting, formed a student committee, submitted petitions...