Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...acres over to swine, feeding them on the almost worthless corn. Then, in the course of nature, they get too many swine and not enough corn. Down swine-price. Up corn-price. Next season farmers plant corn, and vicious is the circle. Furthermore, this corn-swine see-saw is apt to be exaggerated?an exaggeration of an exaggeration? in city corn-exchanges where gamblers get giddy...
Mexican peasants are quite apt to see an apparition of the Blessed Virgin almost anywhere, and forthwith convert the spot into a shrine. Even a chalet de nécessité became by this means a place of worship in Sonora. Last week a group of workmen were interrupted in preparing to dynamite a large rock near Guadalupe, by a mob of peasant women who insisted that the Mother of God had once sat upon that very rock. Agnostics, the dynamiters were unimpressed. Passionate, the women clung to the Virgin's rock, defied the workmen to blow them...
...sail with two friends down the Thames? in their converted ship's lifeboat Wife of Bath he naturally found many such bits of rare Anglicana as the Martyr's epitaph above. Young Morley, like his columnist-novelist brother, is one of those for whom any river will wimple with apt allusion. Half the poets of England creep into Mr. Morley's book, a pat line or stanza from each. And he can himself do such sure telling bits as: "The first lock, by Inglesham Round House, holds two feet of water, of varnished and translucent brown?the brown...
...tortured spirits to whom death has not meant peace The nervous fidget. Proctors who are in the habit of taking their morning constitutional in the aisles of the examination room ought to be reminded that many men are faced by a blue book and a set of questions are apt to be somewhat anxious, are often feverishly imaginative, and are even inclined on occasion to feel a distinct sensation of guilt. No doubt these apostles of individual meditation have the friendliest of intentions. But they forget that even a smile under some circumstances may drive a man to madness...
...anomalous position of the college president were to divide his office between two persons, as it is divided in England between the president of the college, whose interests are primarily scholarly, and the chancellor whose function is executive. In this country, however, the scholar and the business man are apt to be at such opposite poles of thought that such division of labor would only result in friction. It might even be suicidal. So authority must be vested in one man, a man of infinite tact and courage, who must balance Babbitry and philology...