Word: fitter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...home for one day. It took the God-fearing citizen a year to find his religion again. And Mr. Sanders runs true to his tribe; he's oh, so chesty. He wrote you: "The Catholic Hierarchy does not speak for me." All right, Mr. Steam and Gas Fitter, I don't fancy Catholic bishops will lose their rings or their tempers about that. But who-who on earth ever gave you the right to speak for the "rank and file of Roman Catholics if let alone by the Catholic Hierarchy?" The Catholic rank and file, in spite...
...unique delegation arrived in Manhattan last week aboard the Carmania. They were eight British workingmen. One was a patternmaker, one a boilermaker, one a blacksmith, one a toolmaker, one a molder, one an ironworker, one fitter, one a "machine man." They came to the U. S. for four weeks on invitation of the London Daily Mail, one of Lord Rothermere's papers. They are eight actual workers, not labor leaders, sent to examine working conditions, wages and industrial methods in the U. S. The newspaper is paying all their traveling expenses, paying their wives ( who remain at home...
...Fitter Families." At midwestern state fairs, competitions are being held with blue ribbons and silver cups as prizes, for families who submit themselves to examination by physicians, geneticists, psychiatrists, dentists, oculists, for ratings in family health, history and heredity. Pedigrees are also worked out noncompetitively, "fitter families" being the slogan of the movement, as explained by Dr. Florence Brown Sherbon, University of Kansas, before the Association...
Justice Holmes' reputation for exactness of speech is proverbial. In writing for the Class Book mentioned above, he said: "I don't believe in gushing much in these college biographies. I think dry statements much fitter. Also I am too busy to write more if I would...
...Fontana, has already achieved distinction in works of impressive size-notably in the Garibaldi at Sarzana, and the newly erected Quadriga at Rome. Said Fontana: "We, too, claim some share in Shelley's memory. He lived and died among us. Prometheus has, I suppose haunted most sculptors. What fitter monument could Shelley have than Prometheus Unbound, bearing the torch of freedom? The port needs a lighthouse. The mountains close at hand furnish the marble. The primary notion was that of a memorial to the poet but it is now coupled with that of a symbol of the friendship between...