behoove

[Ronald Butters]

I remember hearing a recording of the UMW leader, John L. Lewis, speaking in the 1930s or 1940s criticizing President Roosevelt with a sentence that began, "It ill behooves one who has supped at Labor's table. ..."  I can't remember any of the rest of it, but it definitely taught me one meaning of "behoove"; though it sounded to my boyish ears sorta like Mr. Lewis was saying something about something that had happened to Mr. Roosevelt's feet during an evening meal.
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