Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gallerygoers to his Baltimore Museum of Art, was busy last week wiring his shop for sound. Director Cheek's sound equipment will emit both lectures and soft music through the museum's ventilating system. During the local artists' show this month, the microphones will croon such apt items as Maryland! My Maryland. A subsequent exhibition of Russian icons will be set to Russian Orthodox music...
Says Mr. Hill : "We have no valid tests on this. . . . Besides, the precocious child-actor is apt to be pretty much of a brat." Roger Hill, who was born there, inherited Todd School from his father in 1928. He believes that budding geniuses should be nurtured. Todd's curriculum is designed to prepare boys for college, but extracurricular activities are Hollywoodian: boys paint, act, design stage sets, make sound films, radio speeches...
When Adolf Hitler marched into Soviet Russia, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya quit the tenth grade of Moscow's 202nd Secondary School and joined a guerrilla band. Hair-cropped, in men's clothes, tall, 18-year-old Zoya proved an apt recruit: before the Germans captured her, she had cut a German field-telephone wire, fired German troop quarters, destroyed a 20-horse enemy stable...
Bear these facts in mind when you vote today. They are practical considerations that are apt to hit you not only in the stomach, but in your pocketbook as well. Your considered vote will do much towards giving the powers-that-be a reasonable idea of what you want and how you want...
...Came To Dinner" is the funniest movie to come out of Hollywood since Charlie Chaplin abandoned his cane for a social consciousness. It's also so different and original that it's quite apt to gain the rather dubious distinction of being the herald of a new cycle of film comedies...