Word: apt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speaking about the possibility of a union between Jews and Christians, Dr. Wise said. "It is a most unfortunate thing that the Jews and Christians have become so separated during the ages and that so great a misunderstanding has grown up between them. The Christians are apt to think only of the Jews who crucified Christ, not the Jews who bore him and trained him, and gave him his religion. The Jews and Christians will never unite and lose their individual religions, but it is most necessary that they co-operate with each other since their religions are so closely...
...attempt to gain a Senate seat from Illinois), he who, in 1921, was lifted into the Chairmanship of the Appropriations Committee over the seniority rule, because of his businesslike grasp of affairs, gathered his Western and Middlewestern cohorts and advanced on the Speakership. Mr. Madden, as described by the apt pen of Clinton W. Gilbert, "belongs to the line of watchdogs of the Treasury who growl when anyone asks for appropriations. . . . He looks gnarled, like a workingman who has grown rich. And that is what he is-a stonecutter who has become a millionaire." There was another, however...
...onset, the influenza which attacked His Majesty was somewhat severe, the bronchitis extending to the base of the lungs?a form of malady which is apt to be tedious and resistant...
...American hero (unknown to him, his mother was a Jap girl). Before this sweet solution can release the audience, there are six scenes in and about Manhattan, beginning with the meeting of the chief participants at a Far East bazaar in Forest Hills. The performers were generally apt but the play is apt to end presently in the storehouse...
Burlesque! The word is so hidden under an accumulation of unfavorable connotations that the world has forgotten that burlesque, by definition, is nothing more nor less than immature, inexpensive musical comedy. One is apt to ignore the fact that burlesque, with its elemental appeal, is entitled to an honorable, if lowly, place in the scale of amusements...