Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Ed Wynn, 51, comedian; to a Frieda Mierse, 25, onetime showgirl; in New York. Same day in Philadelphia, Morris Apt, 65, uncle of Funnyman Wynn, committed suicide by poison...
...birthday has become one of Britain's most impressive spectacles, drawing thousands of gaping tourists to London. Not the least of sanctified George V's services to his empire was the fact that he was born on June 3, when the weather is fine, when trade is apt to be dull. A king's birthday in the fog and rain of December and in the midst of the Christmas shopping rush is poor business. No reason whatever was given for choosing June 9 as George VI's birthday but the natural supposition was that weather records...
...live down here in a small town on the Bay of Fundy. Educational facilities being poor, we depend on magazines and the radio for our development along this line, and in a town of this size one is apt to subscribe to any and all magazines in the hope of enlightenment...
...books was brought aboard and then the fun began. Engineers when they heard that the representative of the American Merchant Marine Library Association was on board ran up the engine room ladders two steps at a time. The reason for this, this writer believes, is that engineers are apt to be more philosophically inclined and have more of the "monastic" spirit...
...work with any of the equipment in the $6,000,000 aluminum-trimmed establishment which Andrew Mellon and his late brother Richard provided. All the worker is bound to do is to give Mr. Weidlein a weekly report of progress. If a Mellon "research" ends profitably, the worker is apt to get a good job with the manufacturer who paid the bills. If the worker is also clever he can get the University of Pittsburgh to award him a doctorate on the strength of the research he performed at the Mellon Institute to earn his living...