Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Club Life. The five Thurbers constituted a family unit, but they were also a kind of club. Things were apt to be quite electric around the house; just how electric Jim has described in My Life and Hard Times, a book which many Thurberites consider his most durable, masterpiece. * Sometimes it got a little overwhelming for Charley Thurber. In Jim's story, The Night the Bed Fell, occurs the sentence, "It happened, then, that my father had decided to sleep in the attic ... to be away where he could think...
...would expire, and with it all the President's power to control a galloping war economy. Obviously Congress would not let that happen. Congressional leaders got set to jam through a temporary extension until a new bill was ready to take its place. That new bill is not apt to please Harry Truman...
...average Pentagon officer, unless born to paper-pushing routine, is apt to be a dissatisfied man. In the brassbound Pentagon, there are more admirals than ensigns, more generals than second lieutenants. The most common rank is lieutenant colonel or (in the Navy) commander. Before he was ordered to the Pentagon, a typical lieutenant colonel might have been commanding an antiaircraft battalion in Germany, with 31 officers and 723 men under his command, along with several million dollars' worth of guns and equipment...
...life" just for oneself alone. They might, be as different as RFC Director W. Stuart Symington and Columnist Max Lerner, both '23, or as bustling Senator William Benton of Connecticut and his lifelong friend, Robert Maynard Hutchins, both '21. But they are all apt to be men with a mission, whether it is holding high public office, running a local community chest or managing the Red Cross drive...
Campus anthropologists like to divide Yalemen into "White Shoes," "Brown Shoes" and "Black Shoes." The White Shoes come from the proper families and the proper prep schools; their weekend dress, almost like a uniform, is a button-down shirt, striped tie and Brooks Bros, suit. The Black Shoes are apt to be on scholarship (one-third of all Yale students are), working their way through college. The Brown Shoes are somewhere in between...