Word: properly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gazing with wonder at the granite mountain in front of him, the boy did as he was told, and at the proper moment, gave a signal. Carrier-pigeons fluttered out of baskets to take the news to all the States. The flags on the mountain parted. Still veiled, but not obscured, by an April mist, the gigantic figure of a great soldier loomed, visible in detail to people on the plain 200 ft. below...
...though greying couple who appeared on the passenger list as "Mr. and Mrs, John Robinson." On the third night out John Robinson mounted the Majesties concert platform and cried genially: "Look here, you people, I am Henry Ford and I will show you how to amuse yourselves in the proper way. What about old-fashioned dances...
There was no variation of critical opinion concerning the performance which Conductor Gabrilowitch presented. The chorus, dressed in black, and the soloists, with a proper effort at perfection, voiced the humble and victorious sorrow of the music they were singing. The tricky imitations which alone delighted its first auditors, the vocal echo of a cock's crowing, were of course not emphasized. The score had been shortened from four and a half hours of playing time to two and a half. Critics agreed that the cuts and emendations had been wisely effected...
...airports, too, grass is being scientifically studied. Messrs. Stump and Walter, turf technicians and theorists, having had long experience with golf courses and polo fields, now offer a formula giving the best combination of grass seeds to produce a proper landing field...
...Nights in a Barroom. Temperance tracts, wild wives tossing their heads, Andrew J. Volstead-none of these have withered U. S. alcoholism so effectively as this old-time melodrama. In this revival it is played with complete and proper gravity. The effect of this is often as funny as would be expected; yet, oft and again, some latter-day toper could be heard to gulp and sob, with regret that was not unmixed with remorse. When the little girl cries, "Father, dear father, come home with me now," it took a hardened sophisticate indeed to chuckle at her innocence. However...