Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subbed frequently for Steve Early as press secretary, especially on the grueling train trips which Early dislikes. But his prime value to the President has been as all-round literary choreman, helping compose some of the most felicitous of Presidential letters, touching up the Presidential speeches and supplying apt quotations and historical facts. One of his prized possessions is an autographed photograph of the President inscribed: "To Bill Hassett −a rare combination of Roget, Bartlett and Buckle...
...several years ago nearly put Charlie out for the count, but after eight months in an iron lung he picked up fast and now plays clarinet as tirelessly as ever from a wheelchair. Pee Wee Russell and Frank Teschemacher represent his school of hot clarinet, and Charlie is an apt pupil. His record collection is one of the best in New England, and Charlie's home has for years been a regular stop for visiting jazz musicians, many of whom have cut discs in the Vinal living room on Charlie's recording machine...
Such an irresistible affection for the human scene, communicating itself at once to the audience, has been at the bottom of much great clowning. On this basis, Jimmy Durante builds a ludicrous structure of many ramifications. His less discerning admirers have been apt to call him a big-nosed, uproarious zany and let it go at that. But the fact that Jimmy's nose is big is no more important per se than the fact that W. C. Fields's nose is red. Jimmy, like Fields, is no gagster, however appealing, depending on the card indexes of teams...
...Hitler Would Not Wait." The U.S. had its assets, if they could be used in time-an aircraft industry already at work on French and English orders, a mechanically apt youth, a small backlog of trained personnel. And in spite of everything, nine types of combat plane were already in production: the Flying Fortress (B-17), Liberator (B-24), Mitchell (B-25), Marauder (B-26), Lightning (P-38), Airacobra (P-39), Warhawk (P-40), Thunderbolt (P-47) and Mustang...
...easy to manage. Even though Nancy Ann rotates sewing jobs so that every worker has at least four different models a week and never repeats on a given dress more than once every five weeks, the delicate, eye-straining stitching (on electric sewing machines) is still apt to bring on hysterics...