Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Figures v. Ideas. From a secretary's point of view, he was both admirable and incorrigible. In three decades of typing his manuscripts, she found only one word he was apt to misspell ("millionaress"). Together they figured out the massive Shavian income tax; so good was Shaw's head for figures that he received a letter of thanks from His Majesty's inspector of taxes. But when an idea became involved with the figures, Shaw's acumen (and scruples) deserted him instantly. When he became convinced, as he did in his last years, that...
Although he often gets in bed by 9, he is apt to get up and write down plans he has been mulling over. Aides keep nine pads and pencils scattered at strategic points around his quarters. He frequently hands a sheaf of notes to one of them when he turns...
...painted "miles and miles" of chic murals, which earned him a lot of money but little self-satisfaction. Today he concentrates on the minor easel-painting he is best at, and to teaching at Manhattan's Art Students League. Bouché's students are apt to be startled at first by such obiter dicta as: ¶ "Artists are multiplying to such an extent it's a national disease. Their terrific concern is with art and not with life." é"Art isn't the only thing in the world -the cemeteries are full of great people...
Never Loaded. Its bombshell quality has made the show a "must" in Washington; reporters cover it for the news and the President reportedly listens in. Ordinary viewers are apt to be more interested in the bearbaiting aspects of the show. Terrier-like Producer Spivak, onetime (1944-1950) editor & publisher of the American Mercury and the only permanent member of the reporters' panel, often gets a tenacious grip on an evasive guest and shakes damaging admissions from him. Other members of the shifting, four-man panel come from the top drawer of the U.S. press, and many a bigwig...
...make a mystery of his ivory tower until now? Well, says Marinotti, "an industrialist who paints is apt to be looked on by others as a man who is distracted from his own work. However, once a person can show the work he has accomplished...