Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Spencer: "I don't think it's a very apt phrase. It isn't clear. I don't know myself how reactionary the multiplication table...
Pleasure Mad. When the producers forget that their films are manufactured for the projection room oi a theatre and not for a pulpit there is apt to be dullness. The lesson for this particular evening is the parable of the poor family who suddenly found themselves wealthy. Scrutinizing of the title enables one to guess the outcome...
...have come and gone. And the average business man is now trying to summarize their messages, and find out what they said. First, he finds that financial as well as other doctors disagree; second, that when such messages from the master minds of Business really say anything, it is apt to be limited to the district or business in which the particular master mind is preeminent...
Perhaps few ideas are more apt to stir the average undergraduate than the idea of socialism. Some will argue on it until the small hours of the morning, fiercely pro or antagonistic. Some will laugh it off with a gesture, and immediately double three no trumps. While others may take occasion to curse "those damn radicals" and be more careful to lock their doors even when they...
...followers for their ideas. Nobody really knows one way or the other that is admitted. Everyone is interested in the idea of thought-transference and future existence--man may be said to have incurably necromantic tendencies--but unless the knightly necromancers establish something definitely soon, good old necromancy is apt to degenerate into flippant necromance unworthy of its old, time-honored title...