Word: proper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Looming in their way was Utah's solemn Laborcrat Elbert D. Thomas, chairman of the Senate Education & Labor Committee. "I am opposed to revision in any way that will interfere with the proper working out of this law," Elbert Thomas had said. Convinced that A. F. of L. revision would seriously interfere, he proposed to save the Wagner Act by postponing hearings on their proposals. His excuse: since amendment is a prime issue between A. F. of L. and C. I. O., hearings should be delayed for the duration of Franklin Roosevelt's negotiations for Labor Peace. Twice...
...pidgin English, Sherlock Holmes was a literate patrician who always took his work seriously, permitting himself no distractions except an occasional shot of morphine when he was bored. For the Hays Production Code, according to which "the drug traffic should not be presented in any form," Basil Rathbone exhibits proper disdain. But before he asks Watson (Nigel Bruce) for his needle, he solves in satisfactory style Conan Doyle's gloom-ridden mystery of murder on the Grimpen Mire...
...impersonators of Sherlock Holmes must stand comparison with William Gillette, who created the role on the stage. Basil Rathbone acquits himself fully as creditably as John Barrymore, his cinema predecessor. The only serious bit of miscasting in The Hound of the Baskervilles is in the title role. The proper selection, obviously, would have been a calf-sized Norwegian elkhound; equipped with fright wig and false fangs. Instead, Associate Producer Gene Markey, perhaps in the delightful confusion attendant on his recent marriage to Hedy Lamarr, put his O.K. on a friendly old Great Dane named Chief, who, despite all his yelpings...
Every year 450,000 people in the U. S. get pneumonia. Every year more than 100,000 of them die. Next year, if they receive prompt and proper medical care, there seems to be no reason for more than 36,000 people to succumb to the suffocating disease that up to now has been the nation's third biggest killer. The official news of this medical triumph came from the Food and Drug Administration, which last week licensed the sale of sulfapyridine...
What keeps the average sedentary young executive from toning up at court tennis is mainly that there are only twelve courts in the U. S., and a proper court costs some $100,000, must be plastered with a secret British cement apocryphally said to be made from silt from the bed of the Thames. Courts are 110 ft. long, 38 ft. wide, with a net-covered recess behind the server's court called a dedans, in which the spectators sit. On the left of the server's court, and continuing along the same wall beyond the low-slung...