Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER. The time is now, the place is Manhattan, the boy is Steve McQueen, the girl is Natalie Wood-and when this comedy drama remembers to take itself lightly, the result is grade A Hollywood romance...
LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER. The time is now, the place is Manhattan, the boy is Steve McQueen, the girl is Natalie Wood-and when this comedy-drama remembers to take itself lightly, the results are grade A Hollywood romance...
Dicey, Mumbo and Sheikie were bosomless chums at St. Agatha's, an all-too-proper girls' school in the south of England. They carried on like so many Peck's bad boys in bloomers, planted a gelignite bomb in a bicycle shed, conned free rides in horse-drawn victorias, raced down High Street frothing at the mouth with lemon sherbet powder to convince townspeople that they were possessed by devils. But their biggest adventure in that ill-fated summer of 1914 came the night they buried a coffer of "valuable treasure"-dog chains, bones, a message...
...when he turns to literary criticism--and this takes up the bulk of the volume--that his historian's experience betrays him. It was Rowse's professed hope that by the use of proper "historical method" he could establish firm dates for the plays and poems, and then go on to unravel topical references in the material, as well as problems in Shakespeare's life...
Whisper's Cabot O'Reilly thought a Monro sentence as "neatly turned as the rump and calves of any co-ed who has trooped into a student's room," but tried to put the story in proper perspective by noting that "horizontal gymnastics has long been a popular extracurricular activity and time-honored Harvard tradition...