Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crazy but someone's else thinking makes him so. The truth? What is truth? etc. etc. Two-thirds of it are lively entertainment, unless you think otherwise. Helen Westley does another of her cadaverous crones. Beryl Mercer, Edward G. Robinson and Laura Hope Crews are apt metaphors...
...initial cruise of the season, unless a change in weather condition forces revision of plans, it was announced by Coach Haines last night. Coach Brown's men will not appear on the river until a few days later, partly because of the fact that shells are very apt to collide disastrously with floating ice cakes and partly due to the fact that Coach Brown believes much valuable time may yet be spent in the tank...
...When an amateur horseman takes a jump, one of two things is apt to happen. Either the man is determined to take the jump and does, regardless of whether the horse has stopped or not, or else he gets over the jump only to land with his arms lovingly clasped about the horse's neck. The only thing that has kept many a man from falling off after a jump," added the captain "is the fact that the horse's ears were pricked up. If they had been pointed forward, the rider would have slid off immediately...
...really not the best eight. Men who have rowed in these class shells have suggested that the results of three prelinduary races should determine the choice of the crew to be sent to Derby. But even when this is done, Coach Brown said, the feeling of injustice is apt to remain, so it is probable that a committee from the class eights will meet with the coaches this year to choose the representative boat...
...reader cannot help but be carried if he take any delight at all in apt phrases applied to gestures and expressions or if his sympathy responds to the semi-tragic aspects of homely irony. As a whole, however, "Tomorrow Morning" belongs to the class of modern biographical novels, clinging helplessly to chronology for their structure and unity that try, in a strained way, to reconcile the contradictions of life. Unwilling or unable suggest philosophical standards and apparently indisposed to endorse, with a whole heart, the futility of things, they feebly press the conclusion that solace lies only in the passing...