Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eagle-beaked Duke of Wellington spoke bitterly against the International Exhibition of 1851 because it would "bring too many strangers into the country." The British Museum Library has consistently refused to adopt a card catalog, elaborately enters every acquisition in bulky ledgers. Excuse: "The sharp bits of pasteboard are apt to cut one's fingers...
Europeans traveling in America are apt to ejaculate at the degree with which this nation is woman-governed and they sometimes add, woman-ridden. In all chivalry, the American can ask such a European to name one country where' such conditions do not exist. The immense power which women have over what might be called the national pulse, bolstered by their influence in the education of the next generation, and culminated in some countries by the new power to vote, forces the defenseless male between a Devil of the emotions and a deep sea of domesticity. The only trouble with...
...impossible that the Ruler of the Papal State should ever declare war upon us. The worst harm that George Marquis MacDonald of 149 Broadway can probably do by carrying his new loyalty to its logical conclusion is not apt to involve the crime of High Treason. But what of the long roll called in your last issue of men and women who have just received decorations from Greece. Italy, Spain and France...
Schizoid types: physically pale, sharp-featured; mentally censorious, nonsocial, preferring routine habits, tending to have their personalities split (schizophrenia); especially apt to be tubercular...
...things our fathers liked. There has been so much said about the splendor of this particular opus of Mr. Lehar that one is likely to form exaggerated expectations, especially if the previous revivals in this group have not been seen. The vastness of modern musical plays are very apt to make one forget that George White and Florenz Ziegfeld are unique to this generation. Therefore, those who know of this operetta only through the famous waltz are going to be particularly impressed with the thinness of something they expected to be rich in every form of theatrical entertainment...