Word: properly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...orgy of snooping, culminating yesterday in three Boston papers "jumping the release date"--in other words, printing official announcements ahead of the agreed-upon time. The Stadium announcement was spread to the world a day ahead of time by the Herald-Traveler, the Boston American, and even the very proper Boston Evening Transcript...
...Corporation as a settlement of the Stadium question is a compromise, with concessions to two opposing parties. Critics of the proposed enlargement will find in the enclosure of the open end of the Stadium no alarming stimulus to huger crowds and to overemphasis of football beyond its proper sphere. There will be a slight gain in seating capacity to satisfy the advocates of progress along sport lines, and at all events the plan will insure a certain permanence of the status of the Stadium infinitely preferable to the old haphazard system of temporary stands...
Rivers and on the Panama Canal. He has worked before with both the Mississippi River Commission and the U. S. Army. Awaiting confirmation by the Senate, all he would say about his new job was: "It is possible to control the river, entirely possible. It depends on spending the proper amount of money and on using the proper plans...
...Passed Senator Walsh's resolution asking the Secretary of the Treasury to report on taxes, if any, paid by Harry Ford Sinclair et al. on profits of the suspect Continental Trading Co. (the Treasury soon reported that proper taxes had been paid...
...Stoops to Conquer. The theatre-goers of Manhattan have no proper respect for the classics; when they were permitted to view this famous old comedy by Oliver Goldsmith, their faces were not seen to twitch with pleasure, excitement, or surprise. Little did it matter to them that Producer George Grouse Tyler was offering this amiable revival at popular prices; that D. Lyn Harding, Mrs. Leslie Carter, Fay Bainter, Glenn Hunter, Pauline Lord and O. P. Heggie were listed in the cast. The sly choirs of critics were heard chirping in shrill and resonant annoyance; some of the stars, they justly...