Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French journalists, whose deliberately provocative and skillfully insinuated ideas are apt to upset any Conference, got the statesmen at Geneva into a lather by "announcing" the "un-offcial suggestion"' from "high sources" that Japan be entrusted by the League with a mandate over Manchuria. Such journalistic ideas sometimes become facts. But the French press-playboys were so delighted with their furore that they next announced: "Japan is going to be given a mandate over all China...
...building which houses these activities is replete with ingenious and valuable equipment. Opened this fall for the first time, several groups of people have been the guests of Dr. Rice on inspection tours. Under his leaderships or that of Weld Arnold '18, instructor in Geography, such tours are apt to start in the basement where a solid cement vault stands at one end of the building. Within it, on a solid, sand-cushioned pillar, there is a rare type of clock, one of seven in this country. It is a product of English manufacture and its exceptionally delicate mechanism establishes...
When Ford does intrude himself into his story he is apt to surprise you. Apparently he has a penchant for duels, has fought two, tried to fight two more (the latest only last year, with "a French man of letters who had said injurious things about Henry James"). He claims to be the inventor of the famed spinach joke, gives his original version: "An absent-minded man took a lady in to dinner. Soles were handed around and he took one with his fingers. Seeing the lady look surprised he said: 'Oh, I thought it was spinach...
...like the kind of solid but fanciful English spirit that muddles through the stories of T. F. Powys, you will be apt to look with favor on Author Coppard's. But unlike Powys. Coppard has more than one string to his bow. The tales in Nixey's Harlequin range from shrewd fables to realism that is only a little out of date. They are all obviously the work of a man who does not see the world through conventional spectacles. If you are one who finds an original view distressing, "queer," better left unsaid. Author Coppard is not your...
...Kipnis also went much praise for his rich, luscious singing of a part which, because of its verbosity, is often apt to be boring...