Word: befitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Texas boiled over on the subject of the Texas Centennial. Wrote he from Mount Rushmore, S. D., where he is finishing his colossal head of Lincoln: "What is it in Texas that fights and resists any plan to deal with her history . . . with the nobility, honesty and dignity that befit a great people...
Adolf Hitler in a gaberdine pranced into hoary, high-spired Nuremberg last week for seven days of such pageantry and triumph as might befit the coronation of a Holy Roman Emperor. To heighten the excitement not even crown jewels were omitted...
...Town Council of the Royal Borough of Forfar assembled before a table studded with ale bottles to pass suitable resolutions, drink a health to the "first royal birth in Scotland for more than three centuries."* They decided that plebeian ale did not befit the occasion, spent the town's money for four bottles of Scotch whiskey which were instantly consumed...