Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rose in reply, and there seemed any possibility of a successful counter attack, Caraway of Arkansas interposed. He wandered from seat to seat, with his hands in his pockets, or walked like a monk in the monastery yard? head bowed, hands held before him? stopping only to drawl an apt, ironical remark. In the third row, beside the aisle, handling his books and papers, the downright Robinson, Democratic leader, maintained a watchful eye on the course of legislation, now and then casting in a tart remark or direction...
John Galsworthy, famed British novelist: "In an address at Bedford College, London, I defended the use of slang, declared it to be 'vigorous and apt.' Said I: 'Probably most of our vital words were slang once. . . . I am waiting now to see "gets my goat" academized by Professor Saintsbury...
...Heflin, native Alabaman, being more accustomed to the wiles of Southern ladies, interposed, at this tense moment in the scene, with a few apt phrases...
...building boom," apart from the loss of invested capital always involved, is the rickety and shoddy type of construction erected. The speculative builder wants to finish his house and unload it on someone else for a quick and substantial profit. His attitude toward material, plans and workmanship is apt to be entirely subservient to this desire. So long as a house will look all right until someone buys it, he cares little what shape it will foe in a few years hence...
...point is, American business men are apt to take their bankers as well as themselves too seriously. Bankers are bound to be always optimistic; it would cause scandal if they were anything else. Sometimes, however, they can be just a trifle too cocksure like the rest of the human race...