Word: apt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rooms. Always wearing high, stiff collars, he goes fishing whenever possible, likes billiards and tinkering his ancient Chandler automobile. Art groups he studiously avoids, has no truck with young people who paint abstractions. The abstract quality in his own paintings he hints at in his titles. A picture is apt to be called not Stonington Harbor, but Pertaining to Stonington Harbor...
...first stories and poems were received with detestation in official London circles, but were great popular successes. Although Andre Maurois writes admiringly of Kipling's political and social ideas, which he defines as Liberal-Fascist, the quotations he gives from Kipling's tales and parables are apt to sound funny to modern ears...
...history of the school is in the last analysis, somewhat monotonous because, in the words of Mr. George Santayane, it has been constant, through those three hundred years, to one purpose and function. Still the moral to be drawn from this 'fidelity to tradition' is exciting and is apt to bestir one to the task not only of perpetuating but also of propagating the ideals for which the Latin School stands...
Richelieu's Condition. "Italians love a display of emotion to an extent the English would regard as disgusting," continues Dr. Finer. "Hence the task of government has been, is, and always will be different in Italy from in England. . . . In the apt American phrase, Mussolini is a spellbinder. . . . Yet Mussolini is more controlled, more disposed to reticence, less expansive than the average Italian. He is imperious and detached. . . . He has a solid, crag-like passivity when listening, and even when speaking, that is particularly imposing in a land where all are volatile and throbbing. He gives the impression that...
...When a son s born to an old Grotonian, the happy news is wired to the Rector, who enters the child on the list of favored applicants. Result is that out of a student body permanently fixed at 180 boys, 94 are sons of alumni. Brighter than these are apt to be the ten boys admitted each year by competitive examination. Groton's scholastic standing is high, partly because it drills for College Board Examinations...