Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...copies of Liberty which were confiscated when they reached England last week. For no clear reason this suppression did not operate against U. S. newspapers which arrived screaming the same facts under banner headlines and were sold last week on the bookstalls of famed W. H. Smith & Sons. Apt was a Chicago Tribune front page cartoon by John Tinney McCutcheon showing Edward VIII as Prince Charming kneeling to Mrs. Simpson as Cinderella and finding that her foot fits his jeweled slipper. In the background John Bull shushes a man representing British Journalism who tears his hair and cries: "Ye gods...
...observed Dr. Lahey, causes more energy to be dissipated than the body can afford to expend. Immediate source for this energy is sugar in the blood. The blood gets its supply from sugar stored in the liver. When the liver's store runs out, a thyroid crisis is apt to develop. Delirium, vomiting, diarrhea, temperatures of 105 degrees to 106 degrees ensue. Infections such as tonsillitis or abscessed teeth accentuate this condition. Explained Dr. Lahey...
...parallel to the outermost bar of the outrigger. The legs are kept closer together with the "inside leg," that nearest the oar, drawn up between the arms. It is thus easier to make a quick, even pull-though with plenty of leg drive. The former stroke was apt to be divided into two sections, a terrific slug at the catch and a weaker finish...
...suit for divorce, hotelmen testify that the husband and the corespondent spent the night together in the same room and were registered on the blotter as man & wife. Needless to say, in such sordid circumstances any actual commission of adultery is usually omitted by the husband, whose mood is apt to be one of bitterness at a divorce system which many British jurists and prelates have denounced as "revolting" and "unfair." Last week Mrs. Simpson filed such a divorce suit against Mr. Simpson in the rural Ipswich Court of Assizes. Under English law, she must appear in court and prove...
...grave enough. The Times quotes him as saying: -- "If the Puritans overweighed the, note of gravity, we are at least as prone to overdo the stimulation of nonchalance. And the habit of treating all things as if they were equally light to our abundant powers and emotional buoyancy is apt to leave us emotionally bankrupt in the presence of the objectively deeper passes of experience...