Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problems of the world makes it more possible for one to consider them sanely; for, unlike most newspapers, TIME never becomes hysterical over any situation, no matter of what grave portent. If one accepts a crisis by looking for whatever humor that crisis may contain, one is surely more apt to reach a sensible, sane and logical conclusion...
From Harvard's ever-ready Anthropologist Earnest A. Hooton (Why Men Behave Like Apes and Vice Versa), the girls learned how to pick a good husband. Thin men, the professor warned, are apt to be mumblers who hate people and tire easily. Two-fisted Atlases stamp around the house complaining about the lack of exercise; besides, they grow old young. The best husband-a nice, sociable type who appreciates the comforts of home-is the fat man, or "butterball type...
Accompanying the text is a picture of Miss de Havilland, knife in hand, underneath which the caption reads: "Sister is psychoneurotic. . . ." This statement is misleading. The reader is apt to get the impression that the term, psychoneurotic, means the same thing as paranoiac...
...gentlemen, you have often aroused my admiration for your frequently delightful choice of words, as well as for your apt new use of many an old one. I bow humbly to your practiced use of almost an industrial idiom, but, never did I expect you to jump the track when confronted with a commuter electric line like the C.A. & E. I'll bet your description popped circuit breakers all the way from the front platforms of the shiny new C.A. & E. cars clear back to the power house. . . . Don't you agree "chuffed" just...
...danger in writing like Noel Coward is that you have to do it almost perfectly or you are very apt to come out sounding like a parody executed by the hopeful humorists on the Harvard Lampoon.--Wolcott Gibbs, The Now Yorker...