Word: apts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Buzz Hovey, another man who managed to keep his position in the second boat this year. However, there is still a wrinkle in his form that needs ironing out. Although a hard worker, Hovey is apt to sky on the recovery and knife in at the catch a little. At three is one of the products of Harvey Love's own teaching, El Moffat, who halls from Bombay, India and had never done any rowing until his Freshman year, last year. Then with hard and conscientious work he took a seat in the Freshman shell and this year stepped into...
Said Post Office Superintendent William J. Dixon, defending his selection of a blonde secretary: "She is alert, apt, quick, energetic . . . best suited. You Senators and others call at my office and it is necessary that you all be courteously treated...
...Continent (except Monaco, Luxemburg and Liechtenstein) has conscription and that, far from the armies becoming smaller, they have grown by divisions. Every time Britain started to make commitments on the Continent (such as that made years ago to France and last week to Poland), foreign military men were apt to ask embarrassing questions about the size of the British Army. France long ago let it be known that she was interested in getting British cannon fodder as well as British cannon. What Napoleon, Tsar Nicholas I and Boer General Christian De Wet all failed to force Britain to do, Adolf...
When a symphony orchestra has been slapped around by a heavyweight conductor for a few seasons, it gets very proud of its bumps and bruises. When the top-flight conductor resigns, and a bantamweight takes his place, the orchestra is apt to sulk. In the past few years two of the finest U. S. symphony orchestras have had this letdown: Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony (Toscanini to Barbirolli); the Philadelphia Orchestra (Stokowski to Eugene Ormandy). The Philharmonikers have kept a stiff upper lip, but the Philadelphians, after brooding and glooming for a whole season, last week broke...
...George Ade and John T. McCutcheon), Bruce Rogers decided on book-designing instead of painting when he saw the first books of William Morris' famed Kelmscott Press. In the '90s, when Bruce Rogers started his career, U. S. books were as dingily printed as they were apt to be turgidly written. They provided an aesthetic sensation for readers not unlike that of walking along a muddy road in the dark. Bruce Rogers' imaginative, lucid, unaffected craftsmanship let air and light into book pages. Other designers have matched his craftsmanship, but not his creativeness...