Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Agassiz House last night the Radcliffe Guild and Idler Club gave the first of its performances of "Rollo's Wild Oat" by Clare Kummer. The production, coached by Miss Halman, was well received by the audience, which gave rounds of applause for the apt rendering of the witty lines. There will be a matinee at 2.15 o'clock today and another evening performance...
...team that first played Yale in 1873 recalls the days when football was less a science than a rough and tumble for bewhiskered gentlemen. On the walls of the Union there still hang quaint photographs to testify to the ferocious appearance of these doughty warriors. And the historian is apt to write that the last half of the past century saw the beginning of all things football. But an even more ancient lineage can be traced...
...fact of the matter is that all views are apt to be exaggerated, and the foregoing are no exception to the fact. Undoubtedly Europe is well- covered, but the slogan of foreign correspondents seems to be: "What does the American public want ?" These fact-collectors are governed accordingly. If any big movement takes place, such as the French occupation of the Ruhr, the foreign correspondents are less concerned with fact-gathering than they are with construing the importance and probable effect of what occurs. The function of a correspondent is to write a factual narrative of events coupled with pertinent...
Napoleon, it is related, required but four hours of sleep, and during the remaining twenty did the work of seven men. However, his was a one man government; the success of his tremendous military gamble depended upon his own genius. Today British and American body politics are apt to fight shy of the genius and select a leader more nearly representative. To enslave that leader in a mass of details which will possibly cause an untimely death is hardly consistent with humanity. Nor can every statesman have the vigour and vitality of Roosevelt and Lloyd George...
...GRAND TOUR-Romer Wilson -Knopf ($2.50). When a sculptor genius plays with the inkpot, unusual things are apt to happen; the grand tour of Alphonse Marichaud in the foreign field of the written word is extraordinary. Letters to a friend -to a mistress-sharp, vivid, merry, little incidents-characterizations of people, of places as clean and telling as if they were cut on a copper plate-a startling potpourri of wit, vigor, irony, tragedy, acute observation - self-portrait of Marichaud himself that ranks among the few convincing descriptions of genius in recent fiction-all these jostle each other with...