Word: unfitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majesty been common, except in dress, for it was undeniable that as Duchess of York she was "the sloppiest dresser in the Royal Family." This was the result of misplaced loyalty to her Scottish maid, an honest wench who, realizing perhaps more keenly than anyone else how unfit she was to dress the Queen of England, tearfully protested her inadequacy to her mistress. This peculiarly Scottish situation is now being got in hand by the Queen Mother and Elizabeth is already no sloppy Queen...
...purpose. They continue to drift through the first year and are dropped immediately following their final examinations. Such a system clogs the normal functions of a post-graduate academy and is obviously wrong. Stiffer entrance requirements, such as are in force at Yale, would eliminate the idle and the unfit, and would increase the effectiveness of both faculty and student body...
...Lockheed Orion, Powell Crosley's Northrup, seven discarded American Airlines Vultees and Harry Richman's Lady Peace. Most of the rest of the Vimalert shipment consisted of 411 motors and enough parts to make 150 more. All of the disassembled stuff had been sold as unfit for further duty by the U. S. Army Air Corps at Wright Field, Dayton. Last week it was still largely in Army depots and at Dayton Brigadier General Augustine W. Robins, chief of the Materiel Division of the Air Corps, firmly announced that ''it will not be shipped until money...
...Chicago last week. Titled 0 Say Can You Sing?, FTP's "musical comedy revue" had been more than four months in the making. To stage, costume, write, score, act and direct it, the Government had hired at $23.50 per person per week some 250 untried, unemployed or unfit stage folk from the Chicago area. Result was a three-hour performance which did not differ in quality from most previous amateur or Federal drama. When it was good it was very good, when it was bad it was awful...
...simpler than the smoke screen of mutual hate and intolerance implies. The companies should allow the unions the control they want in the hiring halls, agreeing to employ union labor without threat of "scabs" and strike breakers. Labor in turn should permit the companies to reject men they consider unfit, maintain the traditional right of the marine owner to employ whomever he chooses. Thus employers could not lock out workers for reasons of prejudice or party, but would still control the calibre of the crews, on which safe conduct at sea so much depends. Agreements based on these points could...