Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fair play: even if he had a pretty good idea of who was doing what to whom, he printed the letter rather than behave like an editor of Pravda, who certainly wouldn't. Thus the London Times had published two such letters (signed "S. Marshak, Ulitsa Chkalova 14/16, Apt. 113, Moscow") without comment or caveat. The editors were over a barrel: they could neither prove nor brand the letters an outright forgery...
...desired and deserved. A measure of their achievement is that by the time the book is finished, the reader has forgotten all but a few of them. Of the 60 sons that Perling writes about, only John Quincy Adams, a President's son and a President himself, is apt to be remembered long. Presidents' Sons is oddly content with the simple act of exhuming its subjects. They are neither understood nor studied; the only interesting possibility (the effect of their fathers' eminence on their personalities) is not even explored. Readers will learn that...
...places the Freshman to believe that he has acted as a free agent in picking as his House roommates the people he like the best. He is apt to believe he has chosen of his own volition those who will be his closest associates throughout his college career. This is true, but in a much more limited sense than our Freshman would like to believe. The major group outlines are already formed; they were formed, as a matter of fact, before he ever stepped off the subway in Harvard Square...
This year, the girl, who listens to the tipsters will come up with a gift-wrapped riding crop with handle made of deer-antler, lash of red leather, and ferrule of silver--if she doesn't fetch home something worse. Something worse is apt to be a wicker basket filled with small cakes and scented soap, each wrapped in chamois; Somaliland leopard and suede slippers, a nylon umbrella with an imported handle, or a book titled "Sporting Architecture...
Nobel and Nine Secretaries. He kept nine secretaries busy, dictating his 3,500 articles, speeches and books, campaigning for repeal of prohibition, against the child-labor amendment, for the League of Nations and the Republican Party. For his plodding conservatism, leftists were apt to regard him as a kind of American Blimp. His memberships and honors took up four times as much space in Who's Who as Franklin Roosevelt's. In 1931, for his work as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Butler shared a Nobel prize with Jane Addams...