Word: properly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have a button to wear in the lapel or on the dress bearing a proper symbol, and representing TIME-readers. I'm sure most of us subscribers would like to know that the man we meet is an up-to-the-moment "peppist," and we would be glad to pay a nominal price for such buttons or insignias...
...stab at our Sunday laws, I thank God that I live in a State that has the decency to at least observe one day out of the week. We do not have shows, roadhouses and dance-halls going at full swing as in Ohio. Our citizens have a proper regard for the Sabbath. . . . It was in the State of Ohio and the City of Cincinnati that I first saw women drinking in public and I have never yet seen this in West Virginia...
...House of Commons fiery Laborite J. J. Jones cried: "The miners at Cwm received Baldwin in the proper spirit...
...purely selfish. If you could look into the soul of every man you meet in the course of a day, no vision of a woman would be enshrined there. No woman ever penetrates to the soul of a man, despite all things said to the contrary. . . . Left in their proper relation to man women are all that is delicious, adorable, sensuous. They are, in a large sense, necessary to our physical wellbeing...
...discovered mulling over his radio speech in one corner of the stage, while his memory of an Atlantic City bathing beauty may be enacted in another corner. His daughter may black-bottom on an upper level and his wife receive a weird, bearded, hypnotic lover on still another. By proper punctuation and emphasis, such a production may be made colorful, clear, rapid, nervous, like jazz music. But, though the new playwrights deserve credit for the enterprise, Mr. Lawson's "farce" fails to enthrall the observer, because: 1) The lines are not pointed artfully enough to evoke laughs...