Word: proper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York World-Telegram appeared the following advertisement: "Washington's birthday is more than toy hatchets and silver dollar tossing. . . . We can hang our flags in a proud land, rich and free. We should hang out a large flag on every proper occasion. A large flag to fit a large country. America is an expansive country. Wanamaker's is an expansive store. Our flags are inexpansive...
...shows that Teddy Wilson can't play this style . . . To find why many musicians like Red Norvo's band, listen to "I Get Along Without You Very. Well" (Vocation) . . . Teddy Wilson's "More Than You Know" (Brunswick) with Billie Holiday vocal and Benny Carter alto sax has that proper feeling that goes into a real swing record . . . Made three days before she started to sing regularly with the band, Helen O'Connell's first record with Jimmy Dorsey (Decca) "Romance Runs In The Family," is an excellent job, though not nearly up to what she can do . . . The record...
...February 15-The beginning of mobilization proper, including the requisitioning of civil transport...
...Masaryk is a pretty illustration of man s inability to transcend his environment, except when it becomes absolutely unbearable. . . . Florid, faultless plaid suit, suede shoes, a proper inch of cuff showing, a hearty voice spouting inconsequential generalities for the press. He was a study in hopeless indifference. How unlike the father...
...outlining the caused of the functional disturbances of breakdowns, Williams summarized them as heredity, individual constitution, and environmental constitutions. "Nervous disorders," he said, "are best served by a discussion with a proper doctor...