Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enough. The officers of the school should certainly admit their literary limitations and offer a prize for names. Luchre, Mammon, Rimmon, all of these are excellent. Or one could use the names of great captains of industry, Ford, Pinkham, Swift. Indeed there are all manner of delightfully apt names to adorn letter heads with. But A, B, C--really that is rather poor...
...these words and many another. Soon they were cabled to II Benito at Rome. Many impartial observers deplored the fact that presumably the internal U. S. political significance of such remarks was not understood when they reached Italy. What Italian realizes that Senators with many Klan constituents are apt to see in any settlement favorable to Italy a favor to the Pope? What Italian stops to remember that Senators with numerous German-American constituents are obliged to resent Mussolini's recent anti-German threats concerning the Tyrol? (TiME, Feb. 15, ITALY...
Even George Jean Nathan occasionally is correct. For when he suggested the admirable qualities of a play called "Morals", he was delightfully murmuring words of wisdom. "Morals" is an excellent play with an excellent moral--though an old one: judge not that no be not judged. And apt is the reading of, at least, the moral while America persists in presenting day after day in the pages of her newspapers such pseudo-ethicism as she has lately revealed...
...great compliment by Napoleon. The Corsican, with characteristic economy, left his beautiful sister at Rome, but caused the most valuable pieces in the Borghese' collection to be conveyed to Paris. They have never been returned. Strolling about the Louvre, one notes that its most precious exhibits are very apt to bear a discreetly printed card on which the word "Stolen"† is omitted: "From the Borghese Collection...
...Nanettte", we still have the utmost sympathy for the star herself. It is one of our beliefs that musical comedy is the realm of young people alone, to which they may impart the eternal dancing brilliance of youth unspoiled. In a like manner we are more apt to appreciate an older and more matured actor on the serious stage. But where love, and music, and the whirling ballet are concerned, we must have a certain effervescence and sparkle beyond the dignified capers of middle...