Word: unfitness
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...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...
...fact is that the public resources have been squandered, is it any answer to say that a budget system has been installed? If unfit and corrupt men have been put and kept in office and left to their devices, is it a sufficient defense that the Administration was not actually desirous of dishonesty? If the wounded veteran has been defrauded of the care that was his due, is there any comfort to him in the fact that Congress made lavish appropriations...
Republican Rule, 1921. Politics depraved; one Secretary disgraced, another incapable, a third shockingly unfit. Veterans' Bureau filled with fraud and neglect. Oil leases made criminally; censure of those who exposed crime. A vote for Coolidge is a vote for chaos...