Word: apt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...citizens who have not thought much about dachshunds since War days were startled to read that Lenz-Assmannsheim cost $1,500. In 1918 most people in the U. S. would not have taken a dachshund as a gift. Grotesquely squat and sausage-like, the dog made an apt symbol for propagandizing cartoonists. Furtively clinging to its pets, the Dachshund Club changed its name to "The Badger Dog Club...
...speculative and require thoughtful analysis, and even when he does he is left feeling doubtful about their authenticity because they are in a sheet open to the public for a few pennies. His ears 'Relieve more than his eyes and the gossip of a board meeting he is apt to peddle as "gospel" among his flattering cronies. He honestly thinks that Washington is teeming with "inside stuff" which the Press misses and he, as an able citizen, should have. But the Washington scene as it strikes his untrained eye in headlines leaves him dizzy and confused. To straighten...
...believes himself to be in the same condition. One feels it would be much easier to doff the chain of virtue which Miss Inescort wears so self-consciously and skip off with the publisher, instead of being so deadly moody and moral about it all. Serious women are apt to be irritating anyway. Secretly one admires people who are so fearlessly frank, but when one sees them in action, they look silly...
...comes adult nomad Lapps have a persistent habit of getting dead drunk for months at a time, leave to their hardy children the task of feeding the reindeer. When two Lapp men fight in earnest-and if they fight at all it is generally in earnest-the victor is apt to make a eunuch of his foe. Last week King Gustaf V of Sweden received an offer of charity to his Lapps from the famed Swedish author-physician, Dr. Axel Munthe (The Story of San Michele) who firmly believes the Lapps are a favored people, able to converse with gnomes...
...Miss Nicholson "is not the girl who gads about drinking, smoking, and concentrating on wild parties until the small hours of the morning. She is not a diet faddist, nor does she overstrain herself in athletics. Neither is she a down-trodden factory worker from the slums. She is apt to be the third in a family of five children, one of whom died fairly young. Her father is engaged in some form of manufacturing or mechanical industry and her mother does not work outside the home. The family's income is in the neighborhood of $50 a week...