Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thesis has since become a rallying cry: "We believe there is no such thing as a bad boy." In the first interview with a new boy, Starr likes to talk about anything but what has brought the boy there. "You're a big fellow," he is apt to say. "Ever play basketball? We have a fine team, but we need a center." The boys have work to do, but never as punishment (the only punishment is loss of vacation). Once a new pupil was assigned the job of sweeping the stairs and defiantly spread mud on them instead. Starr...
...chosen 1,400 now average about 35 years old. They proved to be healthier than the average U.S. citizen, less apt to be insane or to commit suicide. Three have become alcoholics; four have been in jail. Today, the group includes 69 lawyers, 44 doctors, 85 college professors, 25 authors or journalists, seven artists or composers, seven policemen and one truck driver. They have written more than 100 books and 1,200 magazine articles, taken out 150 patents. Their incomes are above average, but not startlingly so: for men, $4,700; for women...
...Somerset Maugham wrote, at 65: "The profession of authorship is on the whole a healthy one and authors are apt to live on long after they have given the world whatever of significance they had to offer." Still healthy at 73, "Willie" Maugham finds the manufacture of short stones without significance a habit he can't shuck...
...last week, with the First Lady a safe 6,000 miles away, a bitter debate over her trip led two deputies to send challenges to duel to a Radical Party colleague. Eva's enemies have a way of disappearing from the Government. Her family and friends are equally apt to hang on through thick & thin. Eva's brother is now Perón's personal secretary; her eldest sister Elisa is virtually the political boss of Junín. The husbands of Eva's two other sisters each hold lucrative political appointments...
Gulielma Alsop* can remember when a nickel was a respectable weekly allowance for a little girl. When she went walking with her father, a Quaker who became an Episcopal minister, they were quite apt, as she now recalls it, to discuss such recondite matters as literary style and changing concepts of right & wrong. There were no Sunday papers "in that happy time which has since been called the Gay Nineties," but in the Alsop house in Brooklyn Heights there was a set period of meditation and contemplation called Searching Out the Heart. There was also a great deal...