Word: prone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Museum feet is an occupational disease to which all critics are prone. In Manhattan last week the Metropolitan Museum of Art presented a sure solace for weary arches. In one gallery, subdivided for the occasion into three formal rooms, it presented 58 pictures and 60 statues which comprised the most important exhibition of 18th Century French art the U. S. has ever seen. In France and the U. S. 44 collections ranging from the Louvre's (which lent ten exhibits) to a Kansas City art museum's were raided to make the Metropolitan show possible. Such private collectors...
Most notable address at the Third World Convention was given by Rev. Dr. Samuel Geiss Trexler, 58, of Manhattan. Said he: "The church is too much in the care of older men. The church becomes too conservative and is prone to lose the sympathy of the younger generation." Urging that the church outdo Communists in pronouncing against war, Dr. Trexler deftly drew a parallel to make conservatives squirm: "Christ, seeing young Communists helping to cast out the devil of war, would again say, Forbid them not, as he did when John said, Master, we saw one casting out devils...
...Were more "expansive" (not necessarily more verbose), more prone to illustrate from personal experience, less matter-of-fact...
...tireless worker, a devoted family man, Thompson chewed tobacco, underpaid his employes and, as one of the greatest gamblers of his time, discharged them for gambling. He collected minerals, built beautiful homes, but remained dissatisfied, constantly groped for guidance with writers and thinkers whose intellectual stature Author Hagedorn seems prone to exaggerate...
...attitude of Mr. Mitchell in the present situation occasions no surprise to me or to others who have been in close contact with him in the conduct of Governmental affairs. He is prone to treat every rumor or unsupported statement as true...