Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disconcerting tendency to spoil if they are left in the sun. Those who do not go gracefully to an early grave often fall easy prey to baldness, fallen arches and the horrors of earning a living. Even if they avoid relief rolls, and skid-road bars, they are still apt to end up squirting old ladies with water pistols at American Legion conventions...
...sense, Oxonian Morris Marples had noted, English university students were no different from thieves, gangsters, soldiers, sailors, tramps, showmen, costers, churchmen or lawyers. Whatever century they lived in, they were apt to speak a language all their...
...then, Marples notices, a don was apt to leave his mark upon the language. Mathematician C. L. Dodgson (Lewis
...prohibitionists, Calvert Distillers Corp.'s men of distinction look more like limbs of Satan. The drys, who are trying to persuade Congress to ban liquor advertising in interstate publications, broadcasts, etc., argue that the "distinction" ads are bad for young Americans; they are apt to persuade youngsters that the way to achieve success is to have a Lord Calvert highball within easy reach...
...invariably based on what he observes, plus what he remembers. And his most persistent memories relate to his boyhood in Vienna. In his best work, he achieves a dramatic merger of the things he sees with his eyes and the memories he sees in his mind. The results are apt to be more meaningful than pictures by those who paint only from observation, and more convincing than the work of artists who paint just what they find in their heads...