Word: apte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Laura (by Vera Caspary & George Sklar; produced by H. Clay Blaney in association with S. P. & Roy P. Steckler), like Rebecca, flouted tradition by backing into Broadway from Hollywood. Like Rebecca's, its Broadway sojourn is apt to be brief. The main trouble is that people may not care to see on the stage what they've already seen on the screen, done much better and at a quarter the price...
Since Adam, agricultural thinkers have longed for a magic wand to make weeds disappear. The trouble is that weeds and crop plants are much alike; one farmer's weed may be another's crop. Any wholesale killer is apt to wipe out both together...
...testimonials he treasures most are apt to sound as statistical as his tables. Sample, from a satisfied Minnesota reader: "On June 1, I went fishing around 7 p.m. The major fishing period [on your table] that night was at 10 p.m. I didn't get a strike until 9:45. From that time until 10:30 I caught a nice mess of crappies, weighing around two pounds each, and the sun fish were extra large." News like that makes Knight glow all over...
...five. Now he has explored the 48 states on a jaunt lasting slightly more than a year. He has written a lot of letters (including one to every governor), interviewed many, and pumped a lot of local newsmen, some of whom are very helpful in the Gunther System, and apt to be highly flattered by such attention from one of journalism's most renowned panjandrums...
...want to hire a man who is going to produce," declared the Mayo Clinic's Dr. Charles W. Mayo, "the easiest way to make sure of that is to get one who has a duodenal ulcer." He's apt to be on his toes, he explained...