Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mayor Bill O'Dwyer. On a typical show, breathless, throaty-voiced ex-Model Sloan gave a brief review of the Walt Disney movie. The Living Desert ("Really most unusual"), interviewed two sponsors of Manhattan's Blue Cotillion Ball ("When most people think of balls they are apt to think they are selfish-but this one is for a most worthy cause"), and ended her 25-minute show with a plug for a midtown restaurant ("It's wonderful for hand-holding"). Though not quite as sure of herself as Maggi McNellis and Jinx Falkenburg, Newcomer Sloan is already...
...pendulum of a split personality: "Sentiment, sensuality, soaring and groveling, dirt and deity." Some of the best evidence for and against Burns the man-his robust, personable letters-has been sifted for the first time in two decades by a Brooklyn College English professor, DeLancey Ferguson, in an apt selection that suggests that Byron was right...
Modern painters are apt to spend unconscionable hours in the market place, just to see what is brewing in other ivory towers. "Anything new?" they cry, and under their breaths many add: "Whatever it is, I'll run right back to my studio...
...danger is that companies may wait too long. If sales fall off and they cut prices as a last resort, the drop is liable to scare off, rather than lure in the consumer. When prices are falling, he is apt to keep his money in his pocket, in the belief that goods will get still cheaper. On the other hand, if businessmen cut prices at a time when sales are good, they will persuade reluctant consumers to spend. It is one of the best ways to prevent the recession that so many businessmen are worried about...
Another custom is economic as well as social. The workers have two stomachs. One contains food for their personal use; the other holds community food. When two ants meet, they are apt to press their mouths together for a transfer of food. This act is so common that if a few yellow ants are fed on red-dyed honey, the entire colony soon turns red. Eventually, every ant in the community gets fed, although many of them have had nothing to do with foraging for food...