Word: apte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thought there was too much disparity between rich & poor in Smith's cliquish off-campus "gold coast," did much to banish Smith's finishing-school atmosphere. Neilson treated his "2,000 daughters"*as intellectual equals, with no pomposity. In his weekly chats in chapel he was as apt to urge them to internationalism as he was to lecture them on their posture, lest they end with lumbago...
When radio needs a new voice-from a barnyard cackle to a French maestro-it is apt to call on Mel Blanc, the "one-man-crowd." Until this week, when radio's unsung bit players and stooges were finally honored by Hall of Fame (ABC, Sun., 6-6:30 p.m., E.S.T.), few listeners knew Mel by name. But millions probably knew him as Jack Benny's English butler, train announcer, parrot, French violin teacher and news reporter; as Burns & Allen's melancholy postman; as Judy Canova's Pedro, Salesman Roscoe Wortle and a chronic hiccougher...
Somewhere on the banks of the Muscatatuck River, in the mid-19th Century, lived Jess Birdwell, Quaker and nurseryman. Jess thought he had everything life could give, except a chance to listen to music. His wife, Eliza, was a minister-"good-looking, as female preachers are apt to be." But like most of the local Quakers, Eliza believed that music was "a popish dido, a sop to the senses, a hurdle waiting to trip man in his upward struggle." She had to give Jess a pretty stern nudge in the ribs every seventh month, fourth day (Fourth of July), when...
...American genre has been called the tough, the hardboiled, the wacky and several other names. It earned the epithets because it is apt to mix the pleasures of the wake and the manhunt in a combination of hard drink, hilarity and homicide. It inclines to make murder a laughing matter and put the question of Who Will Swing for It to the arbitrament of alcohol...
...Courier's first lady says she keeps her highly profitable daily out of debt by running it "the way a housewife operates a home." Even labor unions are apt to heed when she says "Now listen, boys. I'll take care of you as long as you do what I think is right...