Word: apt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Owing to the holidays we were unable to say a word of praise last week for "Three Faces East" which was a bully good secret service picture. That sort of thing is apt to be either very obvious or very much involved in movie form, but the almost perfect acting of Clive Brooke and Jette Gondal made this famous stage success tremendously exciting...
When men of known worth lend their names to unpopular causes, observers are apt to look closely to see if they can discover some value, hitherto overlooked, in the thing advocated. Among unpopular issues, one of the least favored is the campaign of certain churchmen to close all theatres, playgrounds, amusement parks on Sundays, and limit the amusement of the public to churchgoing, which these churchmen consider amusement enough. Last week the "Lord's Day alliance," as these churchmen call their association, held its annual meeting in Manhattan, appointed a committee to report judges and county officials who belittle...
...great difference, sometimes the only one, between a stock company and a company playing but one 'play, is that in the former the spectator unconsciously is apt to hark back to the play of a week ago while witnessing the current spectacle. Unless the repertory actor succeeds in changing his dress, his speech, and his mannerisms most completely with each change of program, the audience is apt to see two plays at once, one with its eyes, the other with its subconscious mind...
...respective colleges in an article in the Harvard Crimson (undergraduate daily). These two men were one and the same-a certain Lucius Beebe, who, after being ousted from Yale, entered the class of 1927 at Harvard. Since a mind divided against itself cannot cavil, and a broken allegiance is apt to mean a sound opinion, undergraduates and graduates of both colleges found Student Beebe's views interesting. Said...
...week . . ., and of course the answer to this argument was, as it should be, that sport competition is but a part of the activity of life and is but a part of the satisfaction of living. That he who labors with his mind or his hands is much more apt to have happiness and to achieve real success than he who participates in sport and does that to the exclusion of the usual vocation of life...