Word: apte
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Nationalism is rising all over Latin America. This nationalism, however uncouth or suspect, springs from the emerging popular forces of Latin America. With those forces, U.S. officialdom has very little contact. They are the only native elements which are apt to admire U.S. institutions, welcome U.S. influence, make Good Neighborliness a practical reality...
...school, teetotalers are more apt to walk off with academic honors, but after graduation drinkers are more apt to get skilled jobs, are less apt to be unemployed...
...worked up his noted Carolina Shout. Near Manhattan's 37th St., in the "Old Tenderloin," he studied under Ablaba, a honkytonk pianist with a "left hand like a walking beam." On that beam he modeled his own "walking bass." By 1920 he had what French jazz enthusiasts are apt to call majesty...
These tykes are acting the daffiest of all murder plays, Arsenic and Old Lace, at a special Broadway matinee. They are students at Manhattan's Professional Children s School, which does not train child actors, but educates them and where classmates are apt to turn up of a morning with dyed hair or altered features. These Lds thought nothing of playing such parts in Arsenic as a pair of motherly old poisoners, a drama critic who loathes the theater, a clank who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt, a killer who tries to look like Boris Karloff. Old hands...
...shipping. Among the U.S. submarine fleet, which has sunk altogether some 355 Jap ships, Wahoo was a high scorer. Sticking his jaw out, Mush would say modestly: "We were lucky enough to see a lot of Jap ships and when you see a lot you're apt to sink...