Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...success, although her voice lacked something of the spiritual quality the part should have. . . ." The London Times summed up critical opinion when it said: "On the interpretative side Miss Moore had no vocal style to rank with those of her illustrious predecessors. . . . The ends of her phrases were apt to be untidy. ... In appearance she made a charming and credible figure of Mimi and her acting was straightforward, though it was addressed too much to the audience and on that account not as moving as it might have been...
...fears and resents the president, who fears and resents the trustees. Most pedagogs work off their passions in private talk, present smiling exteriors to superiors. But occasionally one stiffens his spine, talks back or speaks out in defiance of tradition, ruling beliefs, sacred cows. Then the volcano is apt to erupt, spew him out. Ready for just such an emergency stands A. A. U. P. with its Committee...
...Everyone agrees that pictures are much improved and no one more freely than the Motion Picture Research Council. As to what our part has been is of little consequence-but the result is plain to all. Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell, our former president, has an apt way of saying, 'You can't both do a thing and get credit for it and that describes our attitude. . . . The success of such films as David Copperfield and Les Miserables and of many other fine pictures is certainly a sign of progress...
...just after some Beef a la Dutch had been dropped down his lordly neck without so much as an "I beg your pardon," or a request for another noggin of milk had been answered by a noncommittal noise in the throat, his remark could not have been more apt...
...Since the fighting services of all nations are apt to regard men of the sword as an elite caste apart, no amount of fulmination against Germany last week made life any the less pleasant for Lieutenant von Wick. This spruce young German officer lately crossed the Channel for training with the 2nd Battalion of King George's swank Grenadier Guards, a British officer being "exchanged" to Germany at the same time for study with Adolf Hitler's military elite...