Word: apt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ever-welcome Trixie Friganza is the headliner at Keith's this week, and her act, which consists principally of a confidential chat with the audience, finds a ready reception. Her apt characterization and expressive gestures are inimitable, while her amusing personality keeps the audience in a constant state of chuckling...
...industrial dispites, in particular, this tendency has been apparent. A strike may sometimes be excusable; violence can never be excused. As contrasted with some other countries, we have been too apt to see great emergencies where none exist, and to resort to gun-play before there is any need...
...consulted it before taking any important action. Consequently, when every one of our official bodies, from state legislatures down to city councils and boards of selectmen, try to establish their own regulations in regard to clock-worship (chronometrolatry, if a more exact term is desired), the effects are apt to be disastrous. We have read of New Jersey court-houses, where the judge arrived an hour early and the jury an hour late, while the prisoner and the witnesses were kept in agonized suspense, of New Haven trains stopping to alter their schedules at every siding, water-tank, and town...
With our safe remoteness and our incomplete knowledge of the facts it is not surprising that some of us should have branded this action as "French aggression." Dangers which seem very large across the Rhine are apt to appear very small across the Atlantic. We are still prone to regard the armistice, or at any rate the signing of the Treaty, as marking the end, rather than the beginning, of the world's troubles. Europe, with more reason, regards the dangers as still in existence. France has today a population just half the size of Germany's; and her industrial...
...thinking of the school s the great basis for national education we are too apt to forget its partner in this vital field, the public library. Adults are beyond the reach of the school but they may be within the reach of the libraries. Especially in the education of our foreign born population have they great possibilities...