Word: apt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Especially in the second act, when the actors showed the first signs of being interested themselves, the play was interesting to the audience. She proved an apt pupil of the Cave Man School of Courting and used the telephone to good advantage on his head. The plot reached its rather delayed climax, with Boney providing even more than his share of the entertainment. His removal to the asylum was the real ending of the play...
There are always many more women missionaries than men, for the reason that men usually go out married or acquire wives after they have gone, and all wives are counted as missionaries. Women going out single are apt to remain...
...string quartet with piano obbligato. (Schelling himself was at the pianoforte, 'for this was the first time that his composition (dedicated to the Flonzaleys) had ever been played. There were critics who instantly dubbed it a tour de force, a term which critics find invaluable and sometimes even apt; it was, at all events, a tour. In the Evocation Catalane, the Flonzaleys went to Spain; in the Raga, to Kashmir; in the Ireland-aise, to Ireland; in the Gasal, to Persia. Clever, literary music it was, each division telling a story. The Fonzaleys told those stories with their fingers...
...Sciences--and for them it is obviously unfitted. Indeed, those changes are also being made which are necessary to allow its thorough development, such as the reduction of the number of courses required in the Senior year from candidates for distinction. The ardent advocate of the tutorial system is apt to be impatient that no further lightening of course requirements has been made, and is apt to balk at President Lowell's statement that: "There is no intention of gradually substituting tutorial work for courses of instruction." Yet in the light of the past what President Lowell has already accomplished...
...true not only of writers. The clown is forever wanting to play poet. The great decision that many writers, young and old, must make, do make, is to throw over everything in favor of a career of purely creative writing. The metamorphosis of writing from avocation to vocation is apt to involve many pains, bodily as well as mental. I know one boy who has given up the life of a sailor to write poetry. He goes without meals to carry out his ambition. Another, unwilling to let his wife go hungry, works by the hour in a shirt-waist...