Word: apts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unless the author has a touch of it himself, stories about genius are not apt to be convincing. Kettle is. A fable of art's morality, which is very different from the world's, its values are as black-&-white as a fairytale's, its faith as strong as a child...
...life of an animal protector is not an easy one. "Malicious meddler" is one of the mildest names apt to be shouted by people accused of maltreating their animals. They may be even more bitter if the protector is a beauteous society woman who was once a famed public character. Irene Castle McLaughlin, whose zeal for animal welfare is now almost as famed as were her dancing and style-setting in pre-War days, found that out again in Waukegan, Ill. last week...
Though Thomas Stearns Eliot is now the mummified god of a large school of present-day poetasters, where two or three literary lights are gathered together the name of another U. S. poet-expatriate is apt to be murmured with more respect. Less popular, less memorably chantable than Poet Eliot's neatly allusive threnodies, poems by Pound are trademarked by no less scholarship, by language that is both more violent and more obscure. A cat that walks by himself, tenaciously unhousebroken and very unsafe for children, Pound has been given a wide berth by U. S. publishers...
...several instances of remarkable ingenuity in the adaption of format and typographic technique to the spirit of the text. The rendering of Lawrence Wroth's capable essay on Juan Ortiz, the first wood engraver to practice his are on the American continent, by the Southworth. Press is particularly apt in this respect...
...second development is the complete replacement of the "Insurance" and old "Class Fund" methods of accumulating the anniversary donation. The former necessitated the payment of specified premiums through all manner of times, good or bad. The latter was apt to degenerate, all too often, into a last minute scramble for funds among the wealthy members of the class. Prominent in the Harvard Fund's annual approach to every alumnus and in the voluntary nature of the gifts is the purpose, of course, to correct the disproportion under both of the older systems. The success which has attended the Harvard Fund...