Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...under a participation contract with Durant Motors, Inc. In selling. Mr. de Vaux has attained a great reputation, reaps fat commissions. He lives in Piedmont (across the Bay from San Francisco ) on an estate previously belonging to R. C. Durant, son of William Crapo. When not working, he is apt to be seen swishing around in fast speedboats, second in his heart only to automobiles...
Last week the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics made known these findings concerning the strain of flying upon the flyer: bodily resources become exhausted, "staleness" sets in. The flyer loses confidence, judgment, keenness for flying; he is easily discouraged. Aviators are apt to become irritable and must guard carefully against nervous breakdown, etc. etc. Observed the Navy: "Flying is a strange pursuit for man. . . . After [he] has flown as long as he has walked, he may expect to develop the necessary resistance...
...Nicholas Murray Butler, the club's president, gave the event a political twist. Introducing Mr. Young as a "public servant," Dr. Butler said: "Whether a public servant receives office or not is accidental, and if that public servant does assume office by accident, it is as apt as not to reduce a great deal of the public servant's public service." Though the gist of Mr. Young's speech had to do with international War debts and leniency of creditor to debtor in hard times (see p. 16), it contained undertones such as might be found...
...source of satisfaction to the connoisseur. Both the modern trend toward mass production and the advance of education have made possible and profitable the publishing of books in great numbers. This large scale production has tended to reduce the beauty of volumes and to cheapen the workmanship. Students are apt to forget that binding, in years past, was as much an art as writing itself. A study of this kind can do much to create an understanding of artistic craftsmanship and to develop a very real appreciation of books in themselves...
...long time since the Vagabond has allowed himself to slip into one of those moods in which he contents himself with watching the smoke float ceilingwards. Sentimentalism is rather apt to get the upper hand at such moments and it is all too easy for an old fellow to become roseate. So the Vagabond has kept busy with his lectures and his books and left sessions with a pipe to Old Mother Advocate who has been addicted to such whims these many years...