Word: apt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the conferees rustled uneasily at this apt expression of what was in their minds, Sir Cecil Hurst, the British representative, strove to smooth the path of acceptance for Reservation Five by voicing a series of generalities anent the "good will" of the U.S. in international disputes. For some hours the conference marked time and compliments to the U. S. gushed. Then Dr. Osten Undén, the Swedish representative said bluntly...
...have been favorably impressed with the apt manner in which some live ad agency's copy writer has caught TIME'S style. His production of snappy copy has averaged as well if not better than any issue of TIME. You will be frank to admit, I am sure, that not all of your staff members can maintain the swift pace set for them by the master author of TIME'S unique manner of expression. You are fortunate in having this series in the hands of one who could take his place among your capable group of reporters...
...Seventh Day Adventists less apt to be disappointed than just plain Adventists...
...find the house strangely empty. Her father had gone to France. When, two years later, he came back, she had grown out of all recognition. A friend of the family's, William C. ("Pop") Fuller, had had a hand in promoting this growth. Knowing how things were apt to be with the doctor away and all, he got into the way of dropping over every afternoon and taking Helen down to the Berkeley Tennis Club. "Pop" would spread his silk handerchief on the service line, give Helen four dozen balls and let her shoot...
...Augustus John, that swaggering British Van Dyke with his great soft hat and his little sharp beard, is a shrewd business man as well as a capable painter; he knew that when people are watched they are generous but that the offers one seals up in privy envelopes are apt to be mean. His show brought him $25,000, with a top price of $7,500 for a portrait of Princess Bibesco (Lord Asquith's daughter)-returns that have only been surpassed, among contemporary painters, by Sargent...