Word: properly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Except for the unquestioned integrity and approved patriotism of the incumbent Secretary of State," mused Senator Glass, "who may exactly say that the exercise-of this unprecedented power, totally at variance with any proper function of the Department of State, will not some day be so flagrantly prostituted as to result in a distressing scandal...
...sides I find people, I am sorry to say, against Harvard because they think she is so "stuck up", and I feel that in our lack of proper, recognition of our opposing Colleges in our Band music and in our songs gives a real basis for this feeling...
...this way Petruchio, Katharine, Grumio, Hortensio, and the rest become more human than ever. Mr. Leiber as Petruchio is perfect. He carries the necessary bragadaccio to just the proper point, and as he strides about horse-whip in hand inflicting his will upon Katharine one can well believe in his ultimate triumph. Virginia Bronson's Katharine is quite on a par with Petruchio, and rages about quite as she is expected to. In all truthfulness must be said that it is as the violent Kate and not as the tamed Shrew that Miss Bronson is at her very best: Acts...
...have other frightfulness. And he is sending a separate letter to Austria. And all this without consultation with his allies. We discussed all this, and I was strongly of opinion that we should go over to Paris at once and register a note to Wilson putting him in his proper place; but I was not able to persuade Lloyd George, and after lunch he went off to Walton Heath. Either he is seedy or meditating a speech. I am certain we (British, French, Italians) ought to get together and put the truth baldly to Wilson. He is now taking charge...
Next day Saul G. Bron, Chairman of the Amtorg Trading Corp., a Bolshevik concern trading in the U. S., declared: "Sir Henri Deterding regards the approaching tenth anniversary of the inauguration of the Soviet Government in Russia as the proper time to make still another prediction that the Soviet Union is headed toward disaster. No one taking note of Deterding's propaganda can escape the conviction that this is really the most inappropriate moment to make such a prediction...