Word: proper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first metallic booming fills the morning air, a taxi slithers rudely along the curb, and an elderly gentleman disembarks. His frock coat is spotless and lately pressed, although it no longer accomodates his increasing girth with the proper tailored case. If the warm spring breeze should rustle his coat tails the gardenia vendor on the opposite curb would notice that the back of the gentleman's trousers has a guilty sheen, but mercifully, there is no such mischievous breeze. The cab fare amounts to 75 cents, and the gentleman hands the driver a dollar. He is embarassed to hold...
...singer and dancer, Jessie Matthews, in a jarring $900,000 blend of inexpensive, landscapy charm and budget-eating, Hollywood-inspired bandbox décor. In the ginghamy raiment of a river barge waif, Actress Matthews' sturdy, bike-legged nimbleness seems to belie her Cockney wispyness. But squired to proper-dance frocks and slippers and a fancy stage career by Soup Magnate Roland Young. she dances dainty duos with the U. S.'s Jack Whiting, sings her way to a typical cinemusical fadeout...
...Eden, one of the most socially-conscious aristocrats who have ever been British Foreign Secretary, once told the House, Mr. Chamberlain reminded his hearers, that "our armaments may be used in bringing help to the victim of aggression in any case where in our judgment it would be proper under the conditions of the [League] Covenant to do so." The Prime Minister, indicating that His Majesty's Government have not renounced that pledge, went on to quote the further explanation of it by Mr. Eden, who continued : "I use the word 'may' deliberately, since, in such...
Rabbi Samuel Sachs: "She did not have to tear up the ticket, but since she felt it was proper, she was certainly right...
...merit of the Bill's provision for six presidential assistants, Professor Elliott said, "If I were looking for faults, I would criticize the abolishment of the Civil Service Commission; I think it should be retained as an examining body. In the second place, the Byrnes Bill makes no proper provision for the independent commissions...