Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last year Britain's Debrett set had some etiquette pointers for the Radziwills. After accompanying the President of the U.S. and his wife to a dinner at Buckingham Palace, they were listed on the official court calendar as Prince and Princess. Proper Britons boggled over the fact that Stash is now a British subject, thus could correctly use his title only if he had a special license from the Queen, which might be as hard to get as some annulments. The accepted explanation for the faux pas was that palace protocol officers consciously elevated the Radziwills on that occasion...
...been composing their message for more than a week. They knew with precision what maneuvers Mariner II must perform if it was to pass within a useful distance of Venus. The question was: Would the faraway spacecraft accept the orders, store them in its electronic memory and execute them properly at the proper time...
After a while she switched her favors to the secondary male. He showed the proper interest, but whenever he tried to respond to her mood, the boss male attacked...
...sisters started interviewing movie stars for community papers. They got onto the glamour gimmick when they visited their first movie studio. The heat caused their hastily made eyebrows to run (they have been sprucing up with cosmetics since pubescence), and the makeup director generously lectured them on the proper use of eyebrow pencil. "Were we embarrassed!" recalls Reba, re-creating her blush. But next day they wrote up the incident in their column and were deluged with letters asking for more tips...
...financial community by locating it downtown." David Rockefeller has also enhanced the financial strength of the art community by pouring $500.000 of Chase Manhattan's money into paintings, sculptures and many other knickknacks to decorate the new building. Most of the art is the contemporary abstract kind considered proper by that other Rockefeller institution, the Museum of Modern Art, and runs heavily to framed smudges of color (in David's private washroom, there is a Cézanne lithograph). Few Chase executives try to understand their boss's artistic acquisitions, and his family does not share his tastes. Peggy...