Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Khrushchev met Fanfani and Italy's wispy Foreign Minister Antonio Segni with proper ceremony, and there were the usual three days of talks and toasts, lunches and dinners. Khrushchev, his sights set on this week's Big Four foreign ministers' meeting in Paris, mixed pointed threats with pointed jokes about Berlin. He insisted that the West must make concessions on Berlin, and renewed his expressed determination to sign a peace treaty with East Germany...
Homely Smells. Friendliness was far from the minds of the residents of a spanking new civic housing development on Price Street in Smethwick (pop. 68,000), when they learned that prospective neighbors were no natives of the black industrial Midlands, but proper natives-from Pakistan, of all places. The father, 28-year-old Sardar Mohammed, is a hardworking factory hand, the mother shy and house proud, the two children positively sparkling...
...year's end, and Ricordi is anxious to extend its profitable monopoly for another 20 years. As for Vaughan, he is looking ahead to an "artistic revolution." When the copyright expires, he hopes, the whole operatic orchestra will be tuned back to its proper volume, ridding the stage of the vocal athletes whose only distinction is the ability to shatter footlights at a dozen paces...
...agencies ghoulishly squeezing through the door of the funeral parlor for a handout. If you are going to be big-hearted ... do it on your own time . . . and don't wait for death to open up your heart to the needy and the sick. I believe flowers are proper and right at the time of death, beautifully symbolic of the brief human life, grown by God and thereby so precious to Him, even at its fading. So, no matter what others may say, send ME flowers. And don't use my last mortal remains as a charity income...
When McCall's shook up its editorial staff, put on a thick, new coat of makeup and launched a hair-pulling drive to the top of the women's magazine field 2½ years ago, the rival Ladies' Home Journal reacted as any proper Philadelphia dowager would. The Journal, tops in the field for two decades, publicly treated this lipsticked hussy with icy silence, confined its comments to catty asides. "It's fun to be challenged,'' said Editors Bruce and Beatrice Blackmar Gould, faintly amused. Their amusement turned to dismay as McCall...