Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cain Is Able" pay the keep for half an hour over WMEX devoted to Louie, Bix, NORK, as well as moderns such as Hodes, Ed Hall, and Lester Young. And every evening except Sunday Warren Saunders produces "Jump Time" over WCOP at 10 o'clock. The music is apt at times to stray a little afield, but generally speaking pure improvisation predominates. Collectors are invited to come up to the station Tuesday evenings and put on a program featuring their own favorite; any Harvard men interested in participating in this manner are urged to contact the writer for further information...
Harry Truman is no man to be taken in by adjectives. To Party workers, after he became the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee, he said simply: "I am a work horse." The description was apt: it covered his principal virtues, which are industry and loyalty; and it covered his principal defect, which is a drab mediocrity...
Dispatches from a neutral source of the German frontier pointed out an apt historical parallel: Kaiser Wilhelm II's celebrated meeting with his Crown Council in August 1918, when the German war lords of that day decided that bitter, drawn-out fighting might yet weary the Allies into granting a soft peace...
Because piano tuning is a craft requiring great patience, tuners are apt to be dignified men who take great pride in their workmanship. Most of them also pride themselves on a calm, philosophical attitude toward life. A tuner must be able to move smoothly from a honky-tonk where the proprietor is trying to do him out of his pay (average: $4 per tuning) to the studio of a professional musician who hovers around trying to tell him how to perform his highly technical job. He must preserve his equanimity while clocks tick, automobiles honk and children play with...
...Stephen St. Laurent, Minister of Justice: ". . . a group of from one-tenth to one-half of one percent of the population [of Quebec] should not be taken too seriously. . . . Senator Bouchard is one of those who assert that a spade should be called a spade but sometimes . . . he is apt to refer to such an implement as a steam shovel...