Word: apt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Majesty Il Re Vittorio Emanuele is a Neapolitan, but not typical. True citizens of Naples are swart, merry fellows, quick to laugh, quicker to bluster, and apt to be stirring and shouting at all hours of the day or night. His Majesty, on the contrary, is cold, a martinet; but all the same he was born at Naples in 1869. Therefore thousands of Neapolitans lined the quays last week in their finest frenzy as the royal yacht Savoia, paced by four destroyers, swung into the Bay of Naples. A "favorite son" was home, pandemonium held carnival...
Small Babies. If the gestating mother exercises and thus herself uses up considerable of the extra food she eats during her term, her baby is apt to be small and healthy, her delivery easy.?Effa V. Davis of Chicago Maternity Hospital...
...Crimson eights will leave for Ithaca on Thursday and have several workouts on Cayuga's waters before the races saturday afternoon. Lake Cayuga is apt to be windy and rough, so the Harvard oansmen should feel at home...
Sirs: The enclosed footnote- appeared in TIME, April 11, giving credit to Senator Borah, as an apt phrase maker. Senator Borah is everything you claim for him, and I have the highest regard for the Senator and his work. However, there is a question as to the particular phrase which you have credited him with making. On Nov. 28, 1921, I attended a meeting addressed by Mr. William Jennings Bryan, at which he said he was asked by Mr. Barrett to give to the Pan-American Building, in Washington, a photograph of himself, and, a sentiment to go with...
...footnote said: "In the coining of apt phrases, the Senator from Idaho has no equal. Speaking of Mexico, recently, in an attack on the foreign policy of the administration, he spoke words that many think will go ringing down the ages. He said: 'God has made us neighbors; let justice make us friends...