behoove

[Joel S. Berson]

Any crossover from "behave"?

Joel

At 9/2/2010 09:52 PM, Ronald Butters wrote:
>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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