Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were restricted entirely to Jews. The board explained that the idea was to increase the ratio of gentile to Jew in the remaining classes so that gentile students no longer would feel outnumbered. Oddly enough, the experiment was not extended to those school activities where racial prejudices were most apt to crop out. In the gym, the library and the cafeteria there was no line drawn between Jewish and non-Jewish students; they played on the same teams, acted in the same school plays and attended the same school dances...
...going against Laurent Dauthuille for a maximum of ten rounds in the feature event at Madison Square Garden. Dauthuille is a 12 to 5 favorite, but my callments are with Paddy. I wish him luck, and commend to him the fact that Dauthuille, as a Frenchman, is also apt to got excited...
...Capp, the cartoonist-creator of Li'l Abner, probably has a sharper eye for slobs, monsters, hags and fiends than anyone alive. This means that his eye is very sharp indeed, for the modern slob seldom slobbers and in the 20th Century even monsters are apt to use both Vitalis and Zip, grease themselves liberally with Mum or Dew, and consult a dentist twice a year. Capp is not fooled. At times, in fact, he seems to suspect that the world is peopled exclusively by bloated big businessmen, brainless editors, venal politicians, sadistic cops, cruel stepmothers and shambling, leaping...
...seemed to be eating Pappy (in reality he was eating chicken), object to Capp's taste. But more of them criticize his political opinions, observable or suspected, as being out of place in a comic strip. Capp's reaction to such censors is violent. He is apt to cry that neither Mark Twain nor Will Rogers would be allowed to say a word today, and that any man who jokes about anything but his own idiosyncrasies risks being tarred, feathered, dissected by a bribed autopsy surgeon and buried in quicklime...
Teacher Bunche used no histrionics, lectured quietly from his chair. He won the reputation of being the most exacting professor on the Howard campus (a Bunche exam was apt to last four to five hours). But students flocked to hear him, found him always ready to help them...