Word: apte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Presumably this annoying character enjoys Playwright Shaw's sympathy, but the audience's is more apt to go to Actress Edith Atwater, who, as the WPA's lady, is one of the most desirable objects of the New Deal...
...message to Adolf Hitler, the Government declared that hulking, slow-moving, English-speaking Pierre Etienne Flandin would be "more apt" than his predecessor at "collaboration." The new Foreign Minister, also a veteran politician, has always been pro-German. It was he who as Premier in 1934 prevented French action when the Nazis marched into the Rhineland, and he consistently advocated a free hand for Hitler in Eastern Europe, provided he left France alone. Following Munich, he telegraphed the Führer his congratulations on his bloodless victory...
...minority with an exalted, holier-than-thou opinion of itself, as implied by use of the slogan "Crusade," is very apt to be worse than nonproductive. Remember the Prohibition Crusade...
...week confused dispatches had reported the city falling, then not falling, then falling some more. At last, Premier General John Metaxas appeared on the steps of the Army Headquarters building and officially announced the news that drove Athens wild. From London, Prime Minister Churchill, ever apt, saluted: "This recalls the classic age. Zēto Hellas (Life to Greece...
Also printed as a companion to the biography is a valuable collection of studies published by Professor Greenough at different time during his active life in the field of letters. These are a sure testimony to the real scholarship of the man--a quality one is apt to forget in the overwhelming realization of his essential humanness...