Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...invoking not only the familiar Fifth Amendment, but the First, Fourth and Sixth as well. Reading from the typewritten statement that he had placed in front of him, he insisted that the hearing had no "true legislative purpose," and was "an unconstitutional invasion by the legislative branch into the proper function of the judiciary...
...weekend press conference, President Johnson said he did not be lieve that speculation "that we are losing the fight in that area, or that things have gone to pot there, is at all justified." Added he: "We feel that we are following the proper course and that our national interests are being fully protected." Nevertheless, Johnson dispatched Defense Secretary Robert McNamara to South Viet Nam for a field assessment-McNamara's third in five months...
...report on language reform to be issued next year. The major drive will be against useless double letters in Russian words; thus kommunist will become komunist, appetit, apetit, and so on. Of 1,200 Russian words containing double letters, only twelve will be retained. Among them: Russia and other proper names. The soft sign following sibilants at the end of words will disappear, as did the hard sign following consonants, and 16 rules of hyphenation are to be reduced to one. If all goes well, War and Peace will be shorter than ever, great quantities of paper will be saved...
...Proper it was. "Dr. and Mrs. Eldridge Henry Wolff of Cambridge, Maryland, announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Louise Eldridge Wolff, to Mr. Lincoln Gill Clark, son of Mrs. Vanderbilt Clark and Mr. Morton Gill Clark of New York." And proper it should have been, since the prospective groom's mother is undisputed Etiqueen Amy Vanderbilt, 55. The bride's parents followed her every instruction. The listing of the Clarks separately was a discreet indication they are divorced, and since Amy is "a newsworthy person," there was all sorts of genealogy tracing her son back...
...Iowa's Mrs. Arabella A. Mansfield hung out her shingle as the first licensed woman attorney in the U.S. In that same year, 1869, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Illinois State Bar's refusal to admit Mrs. Myra Bradwell with the observation that "the natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belong to the female sex evidently unfit it for many of the occupations of civil life." Today in the U.S., the woman lawyer lives and works in a society that has long since accepted a Myra Bradwell's right to practice law, but where many...