Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ballets in many a Broadway show (On Your Toes, Babes in Arms), Choreographer Balanchine never quite got the spirit of upholstered elegance appropriate to Aïda, or the abandon appropriate to the Bacchanale scene in Tannhäuser. And as pirouetting Bacchanalians, the youthful American Ballet was discouragingly apt to resemble a flock of plucked sparrows. Kindest commentators agreed it was nice, but not quite right...
...syth Streets. Virtually all of this property belongs to whites, most of them Jews, and they make it tough for Negroes to go into business in these prize areas. Leases generally have clauses forbidding Negro tenants; and if a Negro manages to wangle a lease anyway, he is apt to find his rent tripled when the lease comes up for renewal...
...commonly the results of its indiscriminate use, but may occur from an idiosyncrasy. . . . Fifteen per cent of patients cannot take large doses, and 10% are unable to tolerate it at all. Patients in bed tolerate larger doses than do those who are ambulatory. Patients exposed to sunlight are more apt than are others to develop a skin rash." The rash may resemble measles, scarlet fever or hives, and break out on the face, trunk or extremities. Slight poisoning by sulfanilamide causes headache, vomiting, dizziness, breathlessness. A person dying from an overdose of sulfanilamide becomes blue, has pains in abdomen...
...opposed to backing Timility, thought it a shame to suppress "anything that might allow people to think and to keep their minds off such froth and foolishness as you find on every newstand." He added that the city officials behind the censorship of printed matter are "conservative and too apt to make a flight from life...
Apparently Commissar Litvinoff, himself an Old Bolshevik, which today in Russia is risky and apt to leave one out of things, judged that New Bolshevik Butenko was a typical favorite of the Stalin entourage. Meanwhile, the Soviet Secret Political Police, who operate strictly on their own, were closing in upon Butenko at the very time when all Rumania was in ferment because of the Goga Cabinet collapse (TIME, Feb. 21). When the Soviet Chargé d'Affaires suddenly "disappeared" one night in Bucharest, the local Soviet Tass news agency man concluded that Rumanian Fascists had kidnapped or murdered...