Word: apt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industry to which personal vanity, professional jealousy and creative carte blanche are as indispensable as they are to the cinema, upheavals in personnel are naturally more sudden, more dramatic, and more painful than elsewhere. Hollywood long ago chose "amicable settlement" as an apt phrase to describe the results, whatever these may be, of all such events. Two months ago when Producers Darryl Zanuck and Joseph Schenck took their lively Twentieth Century Pictures away from United Artists to merge with Fox, where Winfield Sheehan has been vice president in charge of production since 1926, it was immediately clear that an amicable...
...Congress ragged with fatigue, sore from repeated White House whippings, cross at the loss of its vacation, is not an easy Congress to control. Toss it a controversial measure, keep it idling for several sizzling weeks while a bill is being concocted and such a Congress is more than apt to go on a rampage, foam at the mouth, kick over many a well-laid plan. The job of gentling the Senate, wiping the foam from its angry mouth and keeping it in harness also falls squarely upon the broad stableboy shoulders of Leader Robinson...
...this unwelcome image. It is the picture of an inelegant, stupid, arrogant, and inarticulate person with an extremely red face. The French seem to mind our national complexion more than other nations. It gets on their nerves. They attribute it to the overconsumption of ill-cooked meat. They are apt, for this reason, to regard us as barbarian and gross. Only at one point does the French picture coincide with the German picture. The French share with the Germans a conviction of our hypocrisy. The sole difference is that, whereas the Germans regard us as brilliant hypocrites, the French regard...
...greater task is to get the troublesome child to tell what troubles him. The child will do this most readily if questioned apart from his parents, especially apart from his mother. Says Dr. Kanner: "The mother is often apt to quote diagnostic terms obtained through reading or from previous medical, osteopathic, or chiropractic consultations cr from some supposedly enlightened relative or neighbor. How much harm may be done in this manner was perhaps best demonstrated by the 13-year-old, slightly retarded girl who was wheeled into the office in an attitude of extreme weakness and helplessness and with...
...more than domestic consumption. Their estimates of winter wheat averaged 451,000,000 bu. against the Department of Agriculture's 441,000,000 bu. June 1. But every grain trader knows that the guesses of good private forecasters are just as apt to be accurate as the Government's. And every speculator finds them much more useful for the simple reason that the Government's reports, while dated the first of each month, do not appear until ten days later. Private forecasts, also dated the first of the month, are in the hands of clients by the second...